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Activity Number: 335
Type: Contributed
Date/Time: Tuesday, July 31, 2012 : 10:30 AM to 12:20 PM
Sponsor: Section on Nonparametric Statistics
Abstract - #305023
Title: Some Musings on Functional Data Analysis
Author(s): Kathryn Prewitt*+
Companies: Arizona State University
Address: Dept of Mathematics and Statistics, Tempe, AZ, 85287, United States
Keywords: functional data ; partial least squares ; nonparametric ; support vector machines ; kernel smoothing
Abstract:

Our main interest for this talk is focused on what we call the NIR (near infrared spectroscopy data set), and we investigate briefly the main methods which are available to analyze such data: PCA (principal component analysis), PLS (partial least squares), kernel smoothing (there are various ways to do this), and SVM (support vector machines)


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