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Activity Number: 87 - Invited ePoster Session: a Statistical Smörgåsbord
Type: Invited
Date/Time: Sunday, July 29, 2018 : 8:30 PM to 10:30 PM
Sponsor: SSC
Abstract #330238
Title: Sparse Estimation for Functional Semiparametric Additive Model
Author(s): Peijun Sang* and Richard Lockhart and Jiguo Cao
Companies: Simon Fraser University and Simon Fraser University and Simon Fraser University
Keywords: Functional data analysis; Component selection; regularized regression; ADHD ; resting state fMRI
Abstract:

In the context of functional data analysis, functional linear regression serves as a fundamental tool to handle the relationship between a scalar response and a functional covariate. With the aid of Karhunen-Loève expansion of a stochastic process, a functional linear model can be written as an infinite linear combination of functional principal component scores. A reduced form is fitted in practice for dimension reduction; it is essentially converted to a multiple linear regression model. Though the functional linear model is easy to implement and interpret in applications, it may suffer from an inadequate fit due to this specific linear representation. Additionally, effects of scalar predictors which may be predictive of the scalar response are neglected in the functional linear model. Prediction accuracy can be enhanced greatly by incorporating effects of these scalar predictors.

We propose a functional semiparametric additive model, which models the effect of a functional covariate nonparametrically and models several scalar covariates in a linear form. Our model is applied to ADHD study, in which the response is ADHD index and rs-fMRI serves as the functional covariate.


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