Geometry of log-concave density estimation

DOI10.1007/s00454-018-0024-yzbMath1416.62202arXiv1704.01910OpenAlexW2615044797MaRDI QIDQ1739202

Elina Robeva, Bernd Sturmfels, Caroline Uhler

Publication date: 25 April 2019

Published in: Discrete \& Computational Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1704.01910

zbMATH Keywords

polyhedral subdivisionnon-parametric density estimationsecondary polytopelog-concave density estimation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Density estimation (62G07) Estimation in multivariate analysis (62H12) Asymptotic properties of nonparametric inference (62G20) Special polytopes (linear programming, centrally symmetric, etc.) (52B12)

Related Items (3)

Total positivity in exponential families with application to binary variables ⋮ Optimal rates for estimation of two-dimensional totally positive distributions ⋮ Exact solutions in log-concave maximum likelihood estimation

Uses Software

• LogConcDEAD
• pyuvdata

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