Statistical inference using the Morse-Smale complex

DOI10.1214/17-EJS1271zbMATH Open1362.62078arXiv1506.08826OpenAlexW2963267813MaRDI QIDQ527077FDOQ527077

Authors: Yen-Chi Chen, Christopher R. Genovese, Larry Wasserman 

Publication date: 16 May 2017

Published in: Electronic Journal of Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The Morse-Smale complex of a function $f$ decomposes the sample space into cells where $f$ is increasing or decreasing. When applied to nonparametric density estimation and regression, it provides a way to represent, visualize, and compare multivariate functions. In this paper, we present some statistical results on estimating Morse-Smale complexes. This allows us to derive new results for two existing methods: mode clustering and Morse-Smale regression. We also develop two new methods based on the Morse-Smale complex: a visualization technique for multivariate functions and a two-sample, multivariate hypothesis test.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1506.08826

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zbMATH Keywords

nonparametric estimationnonparametric regressionvisualizationtwo sample testmode clustering

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Density estimation (62G07) Nonparametric regression and quantile regression (62G08) Asymptotic properties of nonparametric inference (62G20) Classification and discrimination; cluster analysis (statistical aspects) (62H30) Hypothesis testing in multivariate analysis (62H15) Numerical aspects of computer graphics, image analysis, and computational geometry (65D18)

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