Kendall transformation: a robust representation of continuous data for information theory

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2006.15991v2
• Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2022 19:54:16 GMT
• Title: Kendall transformation: a robust representation of continuous data for information theory
• Authors: Miron Bartosz Kursa
• Abstract summary: Kendall transformation is a conversion of an ordered feature into a vector of pairwise order relations between individual values. This way, it preserves ranking of observations and represents it in a categorical form. Many approaches of information theory can be directly applied to Kendall-transformed continuous data.
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• Abstract: Kendall transformation is a conversion of an ordered feature into a vector of pairwise order relations between individual values. This way, it preserves ranking of observations and represents it in a categorical form. Such transformation allows for generalisation of methods requiring strictly categorical input, especially in the limit of small number of observations, when discretisation becomes problematic. In particular, many approaches of information theory can be directly applied to Kendall-transformed continuous data without relying on differential entropy or any additional parameters. Moreover, by filtering information to this contained in ranking, Kendall transformation leads to a better robustness at a reasonable cost of dropping sophisticated interactions which are anyhow unlikely to be correctly estimated. In bivariate analysis, Kendall transformation can be related to popular non-parametric methods, showing the soundness of the approach. The paper also demonstrates its efficiency in multivariate problems, as well as provides an example analysis of a real-world data.

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