[SciPy-Dev] scipy.stats.kde

[Anne Archibald]

On 27 August 2010 14:56, Robert Kern <robert.kern at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 13:38,  <josef.pktd at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I don't think I have seen any higher dimensional kernel density
>> estimation in python besides scipy.stats.kde. The Gaussian kde in
>> scipy.stats is targeted to the underlying Fortran code for
>> multivariate normal cdf.
>
> Only for the "integrate over a box" functionality, which was what I
> needed at the time but is pretty rarely required otherwise. The rest
> is pure numpy.

I should say, integrating over a box is something I do all the time,
though that is partly because it is cheap in my setting. For example,
for plotting on a grid, what you really want to do is not sample on
the grid but produce average values over the grid cells - this way you
never miss or exaggerate a peak. So having efficient methods to
integrate over one box or all grid cells can be really handy.
Unfortunately I think it is often expensive even when approximations
are made that allow discarding sufficiently distant points.

Anne

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