Available pointwise or integrated intrinsic data depth functions for samples of HPD matrices are: (i)
geodesic distance depth, (ii) intrinsic zonoid depth and (iii) intrinsic spatial depth.
The various data depth measures and their theoretical properties are described in
COvS17pdSpecEst. If y is a \((d,d)\)-dimensional HPD matrix, X should be a \((d,d,S)\)-dimensional array
corresponding to a length S sequence of \((d,d)\)-dimensional HPD matrices and the pointwise
data depth values are computed. If y is a sequence of \((d,d)\)-dimensional HPD matrices of length n
(i.e., \((d,d,n)\)-dimensional array), X should be a \((d,d,n,S)\)-dimensional array of replicated sequences of HPD matrices
and the integrated data depth values according to COvS17pdSpecEst are computed. If is.null(y), the data depth
of each individual object (i.e., a HPD matrix or a sequence of HPD matrices) in X is computed with
respect to the data cloud X.
The function computes the intrinsic data depth values based on the metric space of HPD matrices equipped with
one of the following metrics: (i) Riemannian metric (default) as detailed in e.g., B09pdSpecEst[Chapter 6] or
PFA05pdSpecEst, (ii) log-Euclidean metric, the Euclidean inner product between matrix logarithms,
(iii) Cholesky metric, the Euclidean inner product between Cholesky decompositions, (iv) Euclidean metric and
(v) root-Euclidean metric. The default choice (Riemannian) has several properties not shared by the
other metrics, see COvS17pdSpecEst for more details.