| Activity Number: | 133 
                            	- Statistical Methods for Functional Data | 
                    
                        | Type: | Contributed | 
                    
                        | Date/Time: | Monday, July 29, 2019 : 8:30 AM to 10:20 AM | 
                    
                        | Sponsor: | Section on Nonparametric Statistics | 
                
                    
                        | Abstract #304985 |  | 
                    
                        | Title: | Covariance Function Estimation for Multidimensional Functional Data | 
                
                
                    | Author(s): | Raymond Wong* and Jiayi Wang and Xiaoke Zhang | 
                
                    | Companies: | Texas A&M University and Texas A&M University and George Washington University | 
                
                
                    | Keywords: | Functional data analysis; 
                            Low-rank estimation; 
                            Reproducing kernel Hilbert space; 
                            Spectral regularization | 
                
                    | Abstract: | 
                            Multidimensional functional data are becoming more common in various domains such as climate studies, neuroimaging and chemometrics. In this talk I will present a low-rank nonparametric covariance function estimator for multidimensional functional data. It is based on an efficient spectral regularization of an operator associated with a possibly infinite-dimensional reproducing kernel Hilbert space. I will discuss the corresponding numerical and theoretical results.   
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