Numerical performance of penalized comparison to overfitting for multivariate kernel density estimation

Feature significance for multivariate kernel density estimation

Multivariate kernel density estimation provides information about structure in data. Feature significance is a technique for deciding whether features – such as local extrema – are statistically significant. This paper proposes a framework for feature significance in d-dimensional data which combines kernel density derivative estimators and hypothesis tests for modal regions. For the gradient a...

Bandwidth Selection for Multivariate Kernel Density Estimation Using MCMC

Kernel density estimation for multivariate data is an important technique that has a wide range of applications in econometrics and finance. However, it has received significantly less attention than its univariate counterpart. The lower level of interest in multivariate kernel density estimation is mainly due to the increased difficulty in deriving an optimal datadriven bandwidth as the dimens...

Penalized semiparametric density estimation

In this article we propose a penalized likelihood approach for the semiparametric density model with parametric and nonparametric components. An efficient iterative procedure is proposed for estimation. Approximate generalized maximum likelihood criterion from Bayesian point of view is derived for selecting the smoothing parameter. The finite sample performance of the proposed estimation approa...

Penalized Likelihood Density Estimation :

Approximate inference of the bandwidth in multivariate kernel density estimation

Kernel density estimation is a popular and widely used non-parametric method for data-driven density estimation. Its appeal lies in its simplicity and ease of implementation, as well as its strong asymptotic results regarding its convergence to the true data distribution. However, a major difficulty is the setting of the bandwidth, particularly in high dimensions and with limited amount of data...