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Discussion of “multivariate functional outlier detection”

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In our comments we provide two possible modifications of the “centrality-stability plot (CSP)” proposed by Hubert, Rousseeuw and Segaert, which may, in some cases, make the plot more informative in flagging functional outliers.

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  1. Department of Statistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

    Naveen Naidu Narisetty & Xuming He

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The authors acknowledge the partial support of the NSF Award DMS-13-07566 (USA) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China Grant 11129101.

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Narisetty, N.N., He, X. Discussion of “multivariate functional outlier detection”. Stat Methods Appl 24, 209–215 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10260-015-0305-z

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