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English: This image shows two different confidence intervals generated from empirical distribution functions. The Purple is the DFW bound, and the orange is the Clopper-Pearson pointwise bound
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#This code is issued under the Creative Commons CC0 Public Domain Dedication


import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from scipy import stats


def ecdf(x):
    x_sort = np.sort(x)
    y = np.arange(1, len(x_sort)+1)/float(len(x_sort))
    return x_sort, y

def DKW_bounds(y, n, alpha=0.05):
    # Compute Dvoretzky–Kiefer–Wolfowitz inequality
    eps = np.sqrt(0.5 * np.log(2.0/alpha) /n)
    lower = np.maximum(y - eps, 0)
    upper = np.minimum(y + eps, 1)
    return lower, upper

def pointwise_bound(y, n, alpha=0.05):
    # Compute confidence intervals from an eCDF.
        
    # Clopper-Pearson interval
    lower = stats.beta.ppf(alpha/2, y*n, (1-y)*n + 1)
    upper = stats.beta.ppf(1-alpha/2, y*n + 1, (1-y)*n)
    
    # Primarily used for mapping nan to 0 or 1
    lower = np.fmax(lower, 0)
    upper = np.fmin(upper, 1)
    
    return lower, upper

num_samps = 30

x = np.linspace(-4,4, num=500)
y = stats.norm.cdf(x)

x_rand = np.random.randn(num_samps)
x_ecdf, y_ecdf = ecdf(x_rand)

# Ensure the eCDF extends to the edges of the graph for the bounds
x_ecdf, y_ecdf = np.append([-4], x_ecdf), np.append([0], y_ecdf)
x_ecdf, y_ecdf = np.append(x_ecdf, [4]), np.append(y_ecdf, [1])

# Pass in number of points because you extended the length of x_ecdf
lower, upper = DKW_bounds(y_ecdf, n=num_samps)
lower_pw, upper_pw = pointwise_bound(y_ecdf, n=num_samps)

fig, axes = plt.subplots(figsize=(4,3.2))
axes.plot(x,y, '-g', linewidth=1.5, color='lightblue')
#Plot gets too crowded if you show the actual ecdf
#axes.step(x_ecdf, y_ecdf, 'k-', where='post', linewidth=1.5, color='lightblue')
axes.step(x_ecdf, lower, '-b',  where='post', linewidth=1.5, color='purple')
axes.step(x_ecdf, upper, '-b',  where='post', linewidth=1.5, color='purple')
axes.step(x_ecdf, lower_pw, '-b',  where='post', linewidth=1.5, color='orange')
axes.step(x_ecdf, upper_pw, '-b',  where='post', linewidth=1.5, color='orange')
axes.set_xlim(-3,3)
axes.grid()
axes.set_ylabel('P(x)')
axes.set_xlabel('x')

fig.savefig('DKW_bounds.svg')

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current14:33, 16 April 2018Thumbnail for version as of 14:33, 16 April 2018360 × 288 (25 KB)BscanMinor bug in code where num_samples in ecdf bounds were overcounted by 2
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