A geometrically motivated parametric model in manifold estimation

DOI10.1080/02331888.2013.800264zbMATH Open1367.62173arXiv1411.3145OpenAlexW3098000211MaRDI QIDQ2934839FDOQ2934839

José R. Berrendero, Ricardo Fraiman, Antonio Cuevas, Alejandro Cholaquidis

Publication date: 22 December 2014

Published in: Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The general aim of manifold estimation is reconstructing, by statistical methods, an $m$-dimensional compact manifold $S$ on ${mathbbR}^d$ (with $mleqd$) or estimating some relevant quantities related to the geometric properties of $S$. We will assume that the sample data are given by the distances to the $(d-1)$-dimensional manifold $S$ from points randomly chosen on a band surrounding $S$, with $d=2$ and $d=3$. The point in this paper is to show that, if $S$ belongs to a wide class of compact sets (which we call it sets with polynomial volume m), the proposed statistical model leads to a relatively simple parametric formulation. In this setup, standard methodologies (method of moments, maximum likelihood) can be used to estimate some interesting geometric parameters, including curvatures and Euler characteristic. We will particularly focus on the estimation of the $(d-1)$-dimensional boundary measure (in Minkowski's sense) of $S$. It turns out, however, that the estimation problem is not straightforward since the standard estimators show a remarkably pathological behavior: while they are consistent and asymptotically normal, their expectations are infinite. The theoretical and practical consequences of this fact are discussed in some detail.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1411.3145

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zbMATH Keywords

volume functionremote sensingdistance to boundaryestimation of boundary lengthestimation of curvature

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Point estimation (62F10) Directional data; spatial statistics (62H11) Estimation in multivariate analysis (62H12) Image analysis in multivariate analysis (62H35)

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• On boundary detection
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