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Yasuko Chikuse
Statistics on Special Manifolds
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Yasuko Chikuse
Faculty of Engineering
Kagawa University
2217-20 Hayashi-cho
Takamatsu, Kagawa
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Statistics on special manifolds / Yasuko Chikuse.
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Preface
The special manifolds of interest in this book are the Stiefel manifold and the
Grassmann manifold. Formally, the Stiefel manifold Vk,m is the space of k
frames in the m-dimensional real Euclidean space Rm, represented by the set
of m x k matrices X such that X' X = Ik, where Ik is the k x k identity matrix,
and the Grassmann manifold Gk,m-k is the space of k-planes (k-dimensional
hyperplanes) in Rm. We see that the manifold Pk,m-k of m x m orthogonal
projection matrices idempotent of rank k corresponds uniquely to Gk,m-k. This
book is concerned with statistical analysis on the manifolds Vk,m and Pk,m-k
as statistical sample spaces consisting of matrices. The discussion is carried out
on the real spaces so that scalars, vectors, and matrices treated in this book
are all real, unless explicitly stated otherwise.
For the special case k = 1, the observations from V1,m and G1,m-l are
regarded as directed vectors on a unit sphere and as undirected axes or lines,
respectively. There exists a large literature of applications of directional statis
tics and its statistical analysis, mostly occurring for m = 2 or 3 in practice,
in the Earth (or Geological) Sciences, Astrophysics, Medicine, Biology, Meteo
rology, Animal Behavior, and many other fields. Examples of observations on
the general Grassmann manifold Gk,m-k arise in the signal processing of radar
with m elements observing k targets. The Grassmann manifold is a rather new
subject treated as a statistical sample space, and the development of statistical
analysis on the Grassmann manifold, which is one of the purposes of this book,
must make some contributions to the study in the related sciences.
This book is designed as a reference book for both theoretical and applied
statisticians. The book will also be used as a textbook for a graduate course in
multivariate analysis for students who specialize in mathematical statistics or
multivariate analysis. I may assume that the reader is familiar with the usual
theory of univariate statistics and has a thorough background in mathematics,
in particular, a knowledge of multivariate calculation techniques. To make the
book self-contained, a brief review of those aspects and other related topics is
given in Chapter 1 and Appendices A and B. The reader may already know the
usual theory of multivariate analysis on the real Euclidean space and intend
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to deepen or broaden the research area to the one treated in this book, that
is, statistics on special manifolds, which is not treated in general textbooks of
multivariate analysis.
Chapters 1 to 3 are concerned with fundamental statistical and mathemat
ical properties of the special manifolds Vk,m and Pk,m-k.
Chapter 1 presents fundamental material which may be helpful for reading
the main part of the book: the backgrounds of the special manifolds, exam
ples of our orientation statistics in practical problems, and some multivariate
calculation techniques and matrix-variate distributions.
Chapter 2 discusses population distributions, uniform and non-uniform,
on the special manifolds. Among those distributions, the matrix Langevin dis
tributions defined on the two manifolds will be used for most of the statistical
analyses treated in later chapters. Chapter 2 also looks at a method to generate
some families of non-uniform distributions, that is, the distributions of the ori
entation and the orthogonal projection matrix of a random rectangular matrix,
and further suggests some simulation methods for generating pseudo-random
matrices on the manifolds.
Chapter 3 deals with the decomposition of the special manifolds, deriv
ing various types of decompositions (or transformations) of random matrices
and the corresponding decompositions of the invariant measures constructed in
Chapter 1 (or Jacobians of the transformations). The results are not only of
theoretical interest in themselves, but they are also of practical use for solving
some distributional and inferential problems.
In Chapter 4, we treat some distributional problems. The decompositions
obtained in Chapter 3 are used to derive various distributional results and to
introduce general families of distributions on the special manifolds. We derive
various sampling distributions for the sample matrix sums, which are sufficient
statistics, taken from the matrix Langevin distributions on the two manifolds.
The forms of the sampling distributions are expressed in the integral forms
involving hypergeometric functions with matrix arguments, which seem to be
intractable. The hypergeometric functions with matrix arguments involved in
inferential and distributional problems will be asymptotically evaluated and
asymptotic analyses will be carried out for three cases, that is, for large sample
size, for large concentration, and for high dimension, in Chapters 6, 7, and 8,
respectively.
Chapter 5 develops the theory of the statistical inference on the parameters
of the matrix Langevin distributions on the special manifolds. The problems
of estimation and tests for hypotheses of the parameters are dealt with by
the Fisher (profile) scoring methods. These solutions are given in terms of
hypergeometric functions with matrix arguments and will be approximately