naive: Naive density ratio estimation

In densityratio: Distribution Comparison Through Density Ratio Estimation

Naive density ratio estimation

Description

The naive approach creates separate kernel density estimates for the numerator and the denominator samples, and then evaluates their ratio for the denominator samples. For multivariate data, the density ratio is computed after a orthogonal linear transformation, such that the new variables can be treated as independent. To reduce the dimensionality of the PCA solution, one can set the number of components by setting the m parameter to an integer value smaller than the number of variables.

Usage

naive(
  df_numerator,
  df_denominator,
  m = NULL,
  bw = "SJ",
  kernel = "gaussian",
  n = 2L^11,
  ...
)

Arguments

df_numerator	data.frame with exclusively numeric variables with the numerator samples
df_denominator	data.frame with exclusively numeric variables with the denominator samples (must have the same variables as df_denominator)
m	integer Optional parameter to reduce the dimensionality of the data in multivariate density ratio estimation problems. If missing, the number of variables in the data is used. If set to an integer value smaller than the number of variables, the first m principal components are used to estimate the density ratio. If set to NULL, the square root of the number of variables is used (for consistency with other methods).
bw	the smoothing bandwidth to be used. See stats::density for more information.
kernel	the kernel to be used. See stats::density for more information.
n	integer the number of equally spaced points at which the density is to be estimated. When n > 512, it is rounded up to a power of 2 during the calculations (as fast Fourier transform is used) and the final result is interpolated by stats::approx. So it makes sense to specify n as a power' of two.
...	further arguments passed to stats::density

Value

naivedensityratio object

See Also

stats::density()

Examples

set.seed(123)
# Fit model
dr <- naive(numerator_small, denominator_small)
# Inspect model object
dr
# Obtain summary of model object
summary(dr)
# Plot model object
plot(dr)
# Plot density ratio for each variable individually
plot_univariate(dr)
# Plot density ratio for each pair of variables
plot_bivariate(dr)
# Predict density ratio and inspect first 6 predictions
head(predict(dr))
# Fit model with custom parameters
naive(numerator_small, denominator_small, m=2, kernel="epanechnikov")

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