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Manifolds of Differentiable Densities

Abstract

We develop a family of infinite-dimensional (non-parametric) manifolds of probability measures. The latter are defined on underlying Banach spaces, and have densities of class CbkC_b^k with respect to appropriate reference measures. The case k=k=\infty, in which the manifolds are modelled on Fr\'{e}chet spaces, is included. The manifolds admit the Fisher-Rao metric and, unusually for the non-parametric setting, Amari's α\alpha-covariant derivatives for all αR\alpha\in R. By construction, they are CC^\infty-embedded submanifolds of particular manifolds of finite measures. The statistical manifolds are dually (α=±1\alpha=\pm 1) flat, and admit mixture and exponential representations as charts. Their curvatures with respect to the α\alpha-covariant derivatives are derived. The likelihood function associated with a finite sample is a continuous function on each of the manifolds, and the α\alpha-divergences are of class CC^\infty.

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