Estimation of functional derivatives

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 37, Issue 6 A, 2009, Pages 3307-3329

  Hall, Peter ^a   Müller, Hans Georg ^b   Yao, Fang ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Consistency; Functional data analysis; Gradient field; Growth curve; Karhunen lo ve expansion; Principal component; Small ball probability

Indexed keywords

EID: 69949145955     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/09-AOS686     Document Type: Article

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