379 – Contributed Poster Presentations: WNAR
Estimating the Coefficients of a Linear Differential Operator by Resampling
Maria Ivette Barraza-Rios
The University of Texas at El Paso
Joan G. Staniswalis
The University of Texas at El Paso
Principal Differential Analysis (PDA; Ramsay, 1996) is used to obtain low-dimensional representations of functional data, where each observation may be represented as a curve. PDA seeks to identify a Linear Differential Operator (LDO) denoted by L that satisfies as closely as possible that Lf=0 for each functional observation f. A theorem from analysis establishes that the coefficients of the LDO are in the Sobolev space, and thus can be approximated by B-splines. Current PDA software used to estimate the LDO assumes that the leading coefficient is 1. We present a method that eliminates this restriction, and ensures that the coefficients of the LDO are in the Sobolev space, and that their approximation by B-splines is mathematically valid. The proposed method is inspired by results in linear regression (Frees, 1991 and Wu, 1986) that show that the weighted average of pairwise slopes between data points is equivalent to the least squares estimator of the regression line slope. By analyzing data, the proposed method is compared with pda.fd (R library fda).