On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, Tomassini, Lorenzo wrote:
I would like to perform density estimation with a weighted sample (output of an Importance Sampling procedure) in R. Could anybody give me an advice on what function to use (in which package)?
This could mean
1) You have a sample with weights w, so `w=4' means `I have 4 of those'.
2) You have a sample from a density proportional to w(x)f(x) and want to estimate f.
Your title suggests the first, your comment the second. If it is the second, use any package (even density() in R) to estimate the density g of the sampled distribution, for ghat/w and rescale to unit area. If you know a lot about w (e.g. in stereology) there are specialized methods which are better.
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