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Journal of Multivariate Analysis, Volume 184, July 2021
Numerous problems remain in the construction of statistical depth for functional data. Issues stem largely from the absence of a well-conceived notion of symmetry. The present paper proposes a topologically valid notion of symmetry for distributions on functional metric spaces and a corresponding notion of depth. The latter is shown to satisfy the axiomatic definition of functional depth introduced by Nieto-Reyes and Battey (2016).