Projection depth and $L^r$-type depths for fuzzy random variables

Abstract

Statistical depth functions are a standard tool in nonparametric statistics to extend order-based univariate methods to the multivariate setting. Since there is no universally accepted total order for fuzzy data (even in the univariate case) and there is a lack of parametric models, a fuzzy extension of depth-based methods is very interesting. In this paper, we adapt projection depth and $L^{r}$-type depth to the fuzzy setting, studying their properties and illustrating their behaviour with a real data example.