Optimal estimation of the mean function based on discretely sampled functional data: Phase transition

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 2330-2355

  Cai, T Tony ^a   Yuan, Ming ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Functional data; Mean function; Minimax; Phase transition; Rate of convergence; Reproducing kernel Hilbert space; Smoothing splines; Sobolev space

Indexed keywords

EID: 82655181491     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/11-AOS898     Document Type: Article

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