1 code implementation • 29 Jun 2015 • Yen-Chi Chen, Christopher R. Genovese, Larry Wasserman
The Morse-Smale complex of a function $f$ decomposes the sample space into cells where $f$ is increasing or decreasing.
no code implementations • NeurIPS 2015 • Yen-Chi Chen, Christopher R. Genovese, Shirley Ho, Larry Wasserman
We introduce the concept of coverage risk as an error measure for density ridge estimation.
no code implementations • 4 Dec 2014 • Yen-Chi Chen, Christopher R. Genovese, Ryan J. Tibshirani, Larry Wasserman
Modal regression estimates the local modes of the distribution of $Y$ given $X=x$, instead of the mean, as in the usual regression sense, and can hence reveal important structure missed by usual regression methods.
no code implementations • 6 Jun 2014 • Yen-Chi Chen, Christopher R. Genovese, Larry Wasserman
Mode clustering is a nonparametric method for clustering that defines clusters using the basins of attraction of a density estimator's modes.
no code implementations • 20 Dec 2012 • Christopher R. Genovese, Marco Perone-Pacifico, Isabella Verdinelli, Larry Wasserman
Ridge estimation is an extension of mode finding and is useful for understanding the structure of a density.