KernSmooth for Python

Porting popular R library KernSmooth to python.

Functions for Kernel Smoothing and Density Estimation.

Transformed R and Fortran functions into Python(2,3) code.

Attention

Please use kern-smooth 1.1.0 or newer. Reason: found not needed log10 density transformation.

Main function of the module:

def densCols(x, y=None, nbin=128, bandwidth=None)

Produces a vector of numbers which encode the local densities at each point in dataset.

x, y : 1D numpy array with coordinates of the points density will be estimated on

nbin : [optional] int or [int, int] - number of bins along each axis (in case of single value - [nbin, nbin] will be used). Default value 128.

bandwidth : [optional] numeric vector (len of 1 or 2) of smoothing bandwidth.

Returns: numpy array with numerical representation (in range [0,1]) of point densities.

Attention: For return value numpy.nan values are allowed in case of nan / infinite values in original dataset

Source: R::grDevices::densCols

Installation

pip install kern-smooth

Usage

Make sure matplotlib is installed.

Generate data for plotting

from matplotlib import pyplot as plt
from matplotlib import cm
import numpy as np
np.random.seed(0)
# create two 'bulbs' with normal distributions
mean1 = [0, 0]
cov1 = [[5, 0], [0, 30]]  # diagonal covariance
x1, y1 = np.random.multivariate_normal(mean1, cov1, 50000).T

mean2 = [5, 17]
cov2 = [[30, 0], [0, 5]]  # diagonal covariance
x2, y2 = np.random.multivariate_normal(mean2, cov2, 50000).T

x = np.hstack([x1,x2])
y = np.hstack([y1,y2])

Generate point densities:

from kern_smooth import densCols
densities = densCols(x, y, nbin = 128)

Plot the result

sc = plt.scatter(x, y, c=densities, s=15, edgecolors='none', alpha=0.75, cmap=cm.jet)
plt.colorbar(sc)
plt.show()

Result

Author

Alexander Butyaev