Some results on the computing of Tukey's halfspace medain

Abstract

Depth of the Tukey median is investigated for empirical distributions. A sharper upper bound is provided for this value for data sets in general position. This bound is lower than the existing one in the literature, and more importantly derived under the \emph{fixed} sample size practical scenario. Several results obtained in this paper are interesting theoretically and useful as well to reduce the computational burden of the Tukey median practically when $p$ is large relative to large $n$.