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Yoav Zemel

Transportation-based functional ANOVA and PCA for covariance operators

Victor Panaretos, Yoav Zemel, Valentina Masarotto

We consider the problem of comparing several samples of stochastic processes with respect to their second-order structure, and describing the main modes of variation in this second order structure, if present. These tasks can be seen as an Analysis of Vari ...

Inst Mathematical Statistics-Ims2024

Statistical Aspects of Wasserstein Distances

Victor Panaretos, Yoav Zemel

Wasserstein distances are metrics on probability distributions inspired by the problem of optimal mass transportation. Roughly speaking, they measure the minimal effort required to reconfigure the probability mass of one distribution in order to recover th ...

ANNUAL REVIEWS2019

Procrustes Metrics on Covariance Operators and Optimal Transportation of Gaussian Processes

Victor Panaretos, Yoav Zemel, Valentina Masarotto

Covariance operators are fundamental in functional data analysis, providing the canonical means to analyse functional variation via the celebrated Karhunen-Loeve expansion. These operators may themselves be subject to variation, for instance in contexts wh ...

2019

Fréchet means and Procrustes analysis in Wasserstein space

Victor Panaretos, Yoav Zemel

We consider two statistical problems at the intersection of functional and non-Euclidean data analysis: the determination of a Fréchet mean in the Wasserstein space of multivariate distributions; and the optimal registration of deformed random measures and ...

2019

Fréchet means in Wasserstein space : theory and algorithms

Yoav Zemel

This work studies the problem of statistical inference for Fréchet means in the Wasserstein space of measures on Euclidean spaces,

\mathcal W_2 ( \mathbb R^d )

. This question arises naturally from the problem of separating amplitude and phase variation i ...

EPFL2017

A unified measure of linear and nonlinear selection on quantitative traits

Yoav Zemel

Lande and Arnold's approach to quantifying natural selection has become a standard tool in evolutionary biology due to its simplicity and generality. It treats linear and nonlinear selection in two separate frameworks, generating coefficients of selection ...

Wiley2017

Amplitude And Phase Variation Of Point Processes

Victor Panaretos, Yoav Zemel

We develop a canonical framework for the study of the problem of registration of multiple point processes subjected to warping, known as the problem of separation of amplitude and phase variation. The amplitude variation of a real random function {Y(x) : x ...

Institute of Mathematical Statistics2016

Fréchet means in Wasserstein space : theory and algorithms

Yoav Zemel

This work studies the problem of statistical inference for Fréchet means in the Wasserstein space of measures on Euclidean spaces,

\mathcal W_2 ( \mathbb R^d )

. This question arises naturally from the problem of separating amplitude and phase variation i ...

EPFL2017