## A canonical definition of shape.(English)Zbl 1283.62124

Summary: Very general concepts of scatter, extending the traditional notion of covariance matrices, have become classical tools in robust multivariate analysis. In many problems of practical importance (principal components, canonical correlation, testing for sphericity), only homogeneous functions of the scatter matrix are of interest. In line with this fact, scatter functionals often are only defined up to a positive scalar factor, yielding a family of scatter matrices rather than a uniquely defined one. In such families, it is natural to single out one representative by imposing a normalization constraint: this normalized scatter is called a shape matrix. In the particular case of elliptical families, this constraint in turn induces a concept of $$scale$$; along with a location center and a standardized radial density, the shape and scale parameters entirely characterize an elliptical density. In this paper, we show that one and only one normalization has the additional properties that (i) the resulting Fisher information matrices for shape and scale, in locally asymptotically normal (LAN) elliptical families, are block-diagonal, and that (ii) the semiparametric elliptical families indexed by location, shape, and completely unspecified radial densities are adaptive. This particular normalization, which imposes the condition that the determinant of the shape matrix should be equal to one, therefore can be considered canonical.

### MSC:

 62H20 Measures of association (correlation, canonical correlation, etc.)

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