Estimation and Hypothesis Test for Mean Curve with Functional Data by Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Space Methods, with Applications in Biostatistics

Autor: Ming Xiong, Ao Yuan, Hong-Bin Fang, Colin O. Wu, Ming T. Tan
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Mathematics, Vol 10, Iss 23, p 4549 (2022)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2227-7390
DOI: 10.3390/math10234549
Popis: Functional data analysis has important applications in biomedical, health studies and other areas. In this paper, we develop a general framework for a mean curve estimation for functional data using a reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS) and derive its asymptotic distribution theory. We also propose two statistics for testing the equality of mean curves from two populations and a mean curve belonging to some subspace, respectively. Simulation studies are conducted to evaluate the performance of the proposed method and are compared with the major existing methods, which shows that the proposed method has a better performance than the existing ones. The method is then illustrated with an analysis of the growth data from the National Growth and Health Study (NGHS) project sponsored by the NIH.
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