A Review of Changepoint Detection Models

Detecting abrupt changes in time-series data has attracted rese archers in the statistics and data mining communities for decades Basseville and Nikiforov ( 1993). Based on the instantaneousness of detection, changepoint detection algorithm s can be classified into two categories: online changepoint detection and offline changepoint de tection. While the online change detection targets on data that requires instantaneous r esponses, the offline detection algorithm often triggers delay, which leads to more accurate result s. This literature review mainly focuses on the online changepoint detection algorithms. There are plenty of changepoint detection algorithms that have be en proposed and proved pragmatic. The pioneering works Basseville and Nikiforov ( 1993) compared the probability distributions of time-series samples over the past and pr esent intervals. The algorithm demonstrates an abrupt change when two distributions a re significantly different.