Title
Linear Time Estimators For Assessing Uniformity Of Point Samples In Hypercubes
Abstract
We investigate the problem of detecting a point set's deviation from uniformity in the unit hypercube. High uniformity is for example desirable in Monte Carlo methods for numerical integration, but also for obtaining a good worst-case bound in global optimization. In high dimensions, many points are required to get reliable results, so the point sets are preferably generated by fast methods such as quasirandom sequences. Unfortunately, assessing their uniformity often requires quadratic time. So, we present several numerical summary characteristics of point sets that can be computed in linear time. They do not measure uniformity directly, but by comparing them to reference values for the uniform distribution, deviations from uniformity can be quickly detected. The necessary reference values are also derived here, if possible exactly, else approximately.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.15388/Informatica.2016.88
INFORMATICA
Keywords
Field
DocType
uniformity, measure, linear time, hypercube
Mathematical optimization,Time complexity,Hypercube,Mathematics,Estimator
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
27
2
0868-4952
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
2
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Günter Rudolph121948.59
Simon Wessing2878.05