Mathematics – Algebraic Topology
Scientific paper
2006-07-25
Homology, Homotopy and Applications, Vol. 9 (2007), No. 2, pp.337-362.
Mathematics
Algebraic Topology
30 pages, 2 figures, minor changes, to appear in Homology, Homotopy and Applications
Scientific paper
Assume that a finite set of points is randomly sampled from a subspace of a metric space. Recent advances in computational topology have provided several approaches to recovering the geometric and topological properties of the underlying space. In this paper we take a statistical approach to this problem. We assume that the data is randomly sampled from an unknown probability distribution. We define two filtered complexes with which we can calculate the persistent homology of a probability distribution. Using statistical estimators for samples from certain families of distributions, we show that we can recover the persistent homology of the underlying distribution.
Bubenik Peter
Kim Peter T.
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