Nonparametric classification for directional data

Marco Di Marzio; Stefania Fensore; Agnese Panzera; Charles C. Taylor

Open Conference Systems, STATISTICS AND DATA SCIENCE: NEW CHALLENGES, NEW GENERATIONS

Marco Di Marzio, Stefania Fensore, Agnese Panzera, Charles C. Taylor

Last modified: 2017-04-15

Abstract

We discuss nonparametric methods to address the problem of classification for directional data. We focus on local regression and kernel density estimation when the domain is the unit circle. We provide asymptotic theory for the proposed methods along with simulation results.