Abstract
Motivated by a broad range of potential applications in topological and geometric inference, we introduce a weighted version of the k-nearest neighbor density estimate. Various pointwise consistency results of this estimate are established. We present a general central limit theorem under the lightest possible conditions. In addition, a strong approximation result is obtained and the choice of the optimal set of weights is discussed. In particular, the classical k-nearest neighbor estimate is not optimal in a sense described in the manuscript. The proposed method has been implemented to recover level sets in both simulated and real-life data.
Citation
Gérard Biau. Frédéric Chazal. David Cohen-Steiner. Luc Devroye. Carlos Rodríguez. "A weighted k-nearest neighbor density estimate for geometric inference." Electron. J. Statist. 5 204 - 237, 2011. https://doi.org/10.1214/11-EJS606
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