Questions tagged [tukey-depth]

a measure of the centrality of a point in a fixed set of points. Also known as location depth or halfspace depth.

The inner polygon of a Bagplot, called the bag, is constructed on the basis of Tukey depth, the smallest number of observations that can be contained by a half-plane that also contains a given point. It contains at most 50% of the data points. For more refer to Functional bagplot

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Tukey depth intuition

In a bagplot, the inner polygon, called the bag, is constructed using the Tukey depth. What is the intuition of Tukey depth and how is it calculated? A simple two-dimensional example with ten to twenty data points may be helpful. Further, how often…
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