ITE / code / H_I_D_A_C / base_estimators / ISWinf_estimation.m

function [I] = ISWinf_estimation(Y,ds,co)
%Estimates mutual information (I) using Schweizer-Wolff's kappa. 
%We use the naming convention 'I<name>_estimation' to ease embedding new mutual information estimation methods.
%   Y: Y(:,t) is the t^th sample.
%  ds: subspace dimensions.
%  co: mutual information estimator object.
%  Sergey Kirshner and Barnabas Poczos. ICA and ISA Using Schweizer-Wolff Measure of Dependence. International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), pages 464-471, 2008.
%  Edward F. Wolff. N-dimensional measures of dependence. Stochastica, 4:175-188, 1980.
%  B. Schweizer and Edward F. Wolff. On Nonparametric Measures of Dependence for Random Variables. The Annals of Statistics 9:879-885, 1981.


    if sum(ds) ~= size(Y,1);
        error('The subspace dimensions are not compatible with Y.');
    if ~one_dimensional_problem(ds) || length(ds)~=2
        error('There must be 2 pieces of one-dimensional subspaces (coordinates) for this estimator.');

    bound = 1;
    num_of_samples = size(Y,2);

if (num_of_samples <= co.max_num_of_samples_without_appr) %directly
    r = rank_transformation(Y);
    I = SW_kappa(r,bound);
else %approximation on a sparse grid
    bin_size = ceil(num_of_samples/co.max_num_of_bins);
    num_of_samples = floor(num_of_samples/bin_size)*bin_size;    
    r = rank_transformation(Y(:,1:num_of_samples));
    I = SW_kappa(r,bound,bin_size);
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