A statistical approach to persistent homology

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DOI10.4310/HHA.2007.V9.N2.A12zbMATH Open1136.55004arXivmath/0607634MaRDI QIDQ2457230FDOQ2457230

P. T. Kim, Peter Bubenik

Publication date: 30 October 2007

Published in: Homology, Homotopy and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Assume that a finite set of points is randomly sampled from a subspace of a metric space. Recent advances in computational topology have provided several approaches to recovering the geometric and topological properties of the underlying space. In this paper we take a statistical approach to this problem. We assume that the data is randomly sampled from an unknown probability distribution. We define two filtered complexes with which we can calculate the persistent homology of a probability distribution. Using statistical estimators for samples from certain families of distributions, we show that we can recover the persistent homology of the underlying distribution.


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