Distribution and quantile functions, ranks and signs in dimension d: A measure transportation approach
多维分布函数、分位数函数、秩与符号:测度运输方法
Unlike the real line, the real space Rd, for d≥2, is not canonically ordered. As a consequence, such fundamental univariate concepts as quantile and distribution functions and their empirical counterparts, involving ranks and signs, do not canonically extend to the multivariate context. Palliating that lack of a canonical ordering has been an open problem for more than half a century, generating an abundant literature and motivating, among others, the development of…