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, Martín Fernández, Josep Antoni, Mateu Figueras, Glòria
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2023
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Repositorio:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/421365
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2117/421365
https://dx.doi.org/10.57645/20.8080.02.11
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Mathematical statistics
compositional data
logratio
simplex
proportion
function
convexity
optimisation
Estadística matemàtica
Classificació AMS::62 Statistics
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Matemàtiques i estadística::Estadística matemàtica
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Sumario: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.