Fundamentals of convex optimization for compositional data

Many of the most popular statistical techniques incorporate optimisation problems in their inner workings. A convex optimisation problem is defined as the problem of minimising a convex function over a convex set. When traditional methods are applied to compositional data, misleading and incoherent...

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Autores: Saperas Riera, Jordi|||0000-0001-8221-4325, Martín-Fernández, Josep-Antoni|||0000-0003-2366-1592, Mateu-Figueras, Glòria|||0000-0002-2477-2764
Tipo de documento: artigo
Data de publicação:2023
País:España
Recursos:Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Repositório:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB
Idioma:inglês
OAI Identifier:oai:ddd.uab.cat:285315
Acesso em linha:https://ddd.uab.cat/record/285315
https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.57645/20.8080.02.11
Access Level:Acceso aberto
Palavra-chave:Compositional data
Logratio
Simplex
Proportion
Function
Convexity
Optimisation
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Resumo:Many of the most popular statistical techniques incorporate optimisation problems in their inner workings. A convex optimisation problem is defined as the problem of minimising a convex function over a convex set. When traditional methods are applied to compositional data, misleading and incoherent results could be obtained. In this paper, we fill a gap in the specialised literature by introducing and rigorously defining novel concepts of convex optimisation for compositional data according to the Aitchison geometry. Convex sets and convex functions on the simplex are defined and illustrated.