Averaged Shifted Histograms: Effective Nonparametric Density Estimators in Several Dimensions

Abstract

We introduce two nonparametric multivariate density estimators that are particularly suitable for application in interactive computing environments. These estimators are statistically comparable to kernel methods and computationally comparable to histogram methods. Asymptotic theory of the estimators is presented and examples with univariate and simulated trivariate Gaussian data are illustrated.