Theoretical analysis of nonparametric filament estimation

DOI10.1214/15-AOS1405zbMATH Open1338.62139arXiv1510.07105OpenAlexW2963402548MaRDI QIDQ292890FDOQ292890

Authors: Wanli Qiao, Wolfgang Polonik 

Publication date: 9 June 2016

Published in: The Annals of Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: This paper provides a rigorous study of the nonparametric estimation of filaments or ridge lines of a probability density $f$. Points on the filament are considered as local extrema of the density when traversing the support of $f$ along the integral curve driven by the vector field of second eigenvectors of the Hessian of $f$. We `parametrize' points on the filaments by such integral curves, and thus both the estimation of integral curves and of filaments will be considered via a plug-in method using kernel density estimation. We establish rates of convergence and asymptotic distribution results for the estimation of both the integral curves and the filaments. The main theoretical result establishes the asymptotic distribution of the uniform deviation of the estimated filament from its theoretical counterpart. This result utilizes the extreme value behavior of non-stationary Gaussian processes indexed by manifolds $M_h,hin(0,1]$ as $ho0$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1510.07105

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zbMATH Keywords

kernel density estimationextreme value distributionnonparametric curve estimationintegral curves

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonparametric estimation (62G05) Density estimation (62G07) Asymptotic properties of nonparametric inference (62G20)

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