thank you.
This is just what I was looking for.....

On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 3:16 AM, David Winsemius <dwinsemius@comcast.net>wrote:

> To address the creation of a 5-D density object:
>
> http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/R/library/ks/html/kda.kde.html
>
> http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/R/library/ks/html/kde.html
>
> http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/R/library/locfit/html/locfit.raw.html
>
> --
> David Winsemius
>
> On Jun 4, 2009, at 12:34 PM, David Winsemius wrote:
>
>  (copy of earlier reply which was not addressed to r-help. Also added
>> informative Subject:)
>>
>> "yes ......" is not responsive to the question of how you propose to
>> display or examine such a mathematical object. My signature was
>> perhaps a lame (certainly an ineffective) effort at getting you to
>> acknowledge that there might, just might, be some conceptual
>> difficulties in "viewing" a 5+1 = 6 dimensional object.
>>
>> Can you point to any examples of such a procedure being applied in a
>> manner that you find helpful? It is certainly feasible to calculate
>> distances in 5-space, but the next step, displaying the
>> "concentration" of those distances as a function of the coordinates,
>> would be the "tough nut".
>>
>> (1000 data points is not a problem. That amount of data should easily
>> fit in any device that can run R.)
>>
>> --
>> David
>>
>>
>> On Jun 4, 2009, at 12:06 AM, arijit kumar debnath wrote:
>>
>>  yes......
>>> I want a density estimator for 5 dimensional data.I want it to be
>>> efficient since I don't have access to a fast computer.My data set
>>> is quite large(about 1000 data points) and I have only a pentium 4
>>> 1.7 Ghz (512 Mb RAM)computer.
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 7:25 AM, David Winsemius <dwinsemius@comcast.net
>>>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>> We can get you a kde2d but you really want a kde5d? What sort of
>>> display are you proposing?
>>>
>>> --
>>> David "Earthling" Winsemius
>>>
>>> On Jun 3, 2009, at 9:26 PM, arijit kumar debnath wrote:
>>>
>>> I want to fit a kernel density to a data-set of size 1000 and each
>>> data point being of dimension 5. The default density function does'nt
>>> work for me. Is there any other function available which can do the
>>> job efficiently.........?
>>> I don't have access to a very fast computer.
>>>
>>
>> David Winsemius, MD
>> Heritage Laboratories
>> West Hartford, CT
>>
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