### Name: density ### Title: Kernel Density Estimation ### Aliases: density density.default print.density ### Keywords: distribution smooth ### ** Examples require(graphics) plot(density(c(-20,rep(0,98),20)), xlim = c(-4,4))# IQR = 0 # The Old Faithful geyser data d <- density(faithful$eruptions, bw = "sj") d plot(d) plot(d, type = "n") polygon(d, col = "wheat") ## Missing values: x <- xx <- faithful$eruptions x[i.out <- sample(length(x), 10)] <- NA doR <- density(x, bw = 0.15, na.rm = TRUE) lines(doR, col = "blue") points(xx[i.out], rep(0.01, 10)) ## Weighted observations: fe <- sort(faithful$eruptions) # has quite a few non-unique values ## use 'counts / n' as weights: dw <- density(unique(fe), weights = table(fe)/length(fe), bw = d$bw) utils::str(dw) ## smaller n: only 126, but identical estimate: stopifnot(all.equal(d[1:3], dw[1:3])) ## simulation from a density() fit: # a kernel density fit is an equally-weighted mixture. fit <- density(xx) N <- 1e6 x.new <- rnorm(N, sample(xx, size = N, replace = TRUE), fit$bw) plot(fit) lines(density(x.new), col="blue") (kernels <- eval(formals(density.default)$kernel)) ## show the kernels in the R parametrization plot (density(0, bw = 1), xlab = "", main="R's density() kernels with bw = 1") for(i in 2:length(kernels)) lines(density(0, bw = 1, kernel = kernels[i]), col = i) legend(1.5,.4, legend = kernels, col = seq(kernels), lty = 1, cex = .8, y.intersp = 1) ## show the kernels in the S parametrization plot(density(0, from=-1.2, to=1.2, width=2, kernel="gaussian"), type="l", ylim = c(0, 1), xlab="", main="R's density() kernels with width = 1") for(i in 2:length(kernels)) lines(density(0, width = 2, kernel = kernels[i]), col = i) legend(0.6, 1.0, legend = kernels, col = seq(kernels), lty = 1) ##-------- Semi-advanced theoretic from here on ------------- (RKs <- cbind(sapply(kernels, function(k) density(kernel = k, give.Rkern = TRUE)))) 100*round(RKs["epanechnikov",]/RKs, 4) ## Efficiencies bw <- bw.SJ(precip) ## sensible automatic choice plot(density(precip, bw = bw), main = "same sd bandwidths, 7 different kernels") for(i in 2:length(kernels)) lines(density(precip, bw = bw, kernel = kernels[i]), col = i) ## Bandwidth Adjustment for "Exactly Equivalent Kernels" h.f <- sapply(kernels, function(k)density(kernel = k, give.Rkern = TRUE)) (h.f <- (h.f["gaussian"] / h.f)^ .2) ## -> 1, 1.01, .995, 1.007,... close to 1 => adjustment barely visible.. plot(density(precip, bw = bw), main = "equivalent bandwidths, 7 different kernels") for(i in 2:length(kernels)) lines(density(precip, bw = bw, adjust = h.f[i], kernel = kernels[i]), col = i) legend(55, 0.035, legend = kernels, col = seq(kernels), lty = 1)