Title
Kriging prediction for manifold-valued random fields.
Abstract
The statistical analysis of data belonging to Riemannian manifolds is becoming increasingly important in many applications, such as shape analysis, diffusion tensor imaging and the analysis of covariance matrices. In many cases, data are spatially distributed but it is not trivial to take into account spatial dependence in the analysis because of the non linear geometry of the manifold. This work proposes a solution to the problem of spatial prediction for manifold valued data, with a particular focus on the case of positive definite symmetric matrices. Under the hypothesis that the dispersion of the observations on the manifold is not too large, data can be projected on a suitably chosen tangent space, where an additive model can be used to describe the relationship between response variable and covariates. Thus, we generalize classical kriging prediction, dealing with the spatial dependence in this tangent space, where well established Euclidean methods can be used. The proposed kriging prediction is applied to the matrix field of covariances between temperature and precipitation in Quebec, Canada.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1016/j.jmva.2015.12.006
Journal of Multivariate Analysis
Keywords
DocType
Volume
62H11,62F30
Journal
145
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
C
0047-259X
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.37
11
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Davide Pigoli150.97
Alessandra Menafoglio2175.25
Piercesare Secchi37011.12