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Activity Number: 305 - New Nonparametric Methods for Functional Data
Type: Contributed
Date/Time: Tuesday, July 31, 2018 : 8:30 AM to 10:20 AM
Sponsor: Section on Nonparametric Statistics
Abstract #327133 Presentation
Title: M-Based Simultaneous Inference for Functional Data
Author(s): Guanqun Cao* and Nedret Billor and Italo Costa Lima
Companies: Auburn University and Auburn University and auburn university
Keywords: Confidence band; Functional data analysis; Robust statistics; Spline smoothing; M-Estimator; Pseudo-data
Abstract:

Estimating and constructing a simultaneous confidence band for the mean function in the presence of outliers is an important problem in the framework of functional data analysis. In this paper, we propose a robust estimator and a robust simultaneous confidence band for the mean function of functional data using M-estimation and B-splines. The robust simultaneous confidence band is also extended to the difference of mean functions of two populations. Further the asymptotic properties of the M-based mean function estimator, such as the asymptotic consistency and asymptotic normality, are studied. The performance of the proposed robust methods and their robustness are demonstrated with an extensive simulation study and two real data examples.


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