Arbeitspapier
Constructing irregular histograms by penalized likelihood
We propose a fully automatic procedure for the construction of irregular histograms. For a given number of bins, the maximum likelihood histogram is known to be the result of a dynamic programming algorithm. To choose the number of bins, we propose two different penalties motivated by recent work in model selection by Castellan [6] and Massart [26]. We give a complete description of the algorithm and a proper tuning of the penalties. Finally, we compare our procedure to other existing proposals for a wide range of different densities and sample sizes.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: Technical Report ; No. 2009,04
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irregular histogram
density estimation
penalized likelihood
dynamic programming
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Rozenholc, Yves
Mildenberger, Thoralf
Gather, Ursula
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Veröffentlichung
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Technische Universität Dortmund, Sonderforschungsbereich 475 - Komplexitätsreduktion in Multivariaten Datenstrukturen
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Dortmund
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2009
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- Last update
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Rozenholc, Yves
- Mildenberger, Thoralf
- Gather, Ursula
- Technische Universität Dortmund, Sonderforschungsbereich 475 - Komplexitätsreduktion in Multivariaten Datenstrukturen
Time of origin
- 2009