Title
Extensible grids: uniform sampling on a space-filling curve.
Abstract
We study the properties of points in [0,1]d generated by applying Hilbert's space filling curve to uniformly distributed points in [0,1]. For deterministic sampling we obtain a discrepancy of O(n-1/d) for d2. For random stratified sampling, and scrambled van der Corput points, we derive a mean-squared error of O(n-1-2/d) for integration of Lipschitz continuous integrands, when d3. These rates are the same as those obtained by sampling on d-dimensional grids and they show a deterioration with increasing d. The rate for Lipschitz functions is, however, the best possible at that level of smoothness and is better than plain independent and identically distributed sampling. Unlike grids, space filling curve sampling provides points at any desired sample size, and the van der Corput version is extensible in n. We also introduce a class of piecewise Lipschitz functions whose discontinuities are in rectifiable sets described via Minkowski content. Although these functions may have infinite variation in the sense of Hardy and Krause, they can be integrated with a mean-squared error of O(n-1-1/d). It was previously known only that the rate was o(n-1). Other space filling curves, such as those due to Sierpinski and Peano, also attain these rates, whereas upper bounds for the Lebesgue curve are somewhat worse, as if the dimension were log2(3) times as high.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1111/rssb.12132
JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL STATISTICAL SOCIETY SERIES B-STATISTICAL METHODOLOGY
Keywords
Field
DocType
van der Corput sequence,Hilbert space filling curve,Lattice sequence,Randomized quasi-Monte-Carlo sampling,Sequential quasi-Monte-Carlo method
Combinatorics,Peano axioms,Mean squared error,Sampling (statistics),Space-filling curve,Statistics,Sierpinski triangle,Smoothness,Mathematics,Sample size determination,Lebesgue integration
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
78
4.0
1369-7412
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
0.44
7
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Zhijian He1132.94
Art B. Owen227037.03