Alpha shapes in kernel density estimation

MaRDI QIDQ6509271arXivFDO

Authors Erik Carlsson, John Gunnar Carlsson

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Density estimation (62G07) Persistent homology and applications, topological data analysis (55N31) Topological data analysis (62R40)

Abstract: We define a filtered simplicial complex associated to the superlevel sets of a sum of weighted Gaussians kernels $f(x)$, with uniform scale parameter $h>0$. Regarding $f$ as a kernel density estimator of a data set $mathcalDsubsetmathbb{R}^m$, we obtain a method for filtering persistent homology by density in low or high dimensions. On the other hand, we also see that our construction can be highly visually descriptive.

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