R help - Apr 2005 - density estimation with weighted sample

Dear all

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)?

Thanks a lot,
Lorenzo

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.

-- 
Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
1 South Parks Road,                     +44 1865 272866 (PA)
Oxford OX1 3TG, UK                Fax:  +44 1865 272595