Estimating and depicting the structure of a distribution of random functions
随机函数分布结构的估计与展示
We suggest a nonparametric approach to making inference about the structure of distributions in a potentially infinite‐dimensional space, for example a function space, and displaying information about that structure. It is suggested that the simplest way of presenting the structure is through modes and density ascent lines, the latter being the projections into the sample space of the curves of steepest ascent up the surface of a functional‐data density. Modes are always…