Minimax properties of fréchet means of discretely sampled curves

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 923-956

  Bigot, Jérémie ^a   Gendre, Xavier ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^b INSTITUT DE MATHÉMATIQUES DE TOULOUSE   (France)

Author keywords

Curve registration; Deformable models; Fr chet mean; Functional data analysis; Lie group action; Minimax rate of convergence; Non euclidean metric; Sobolev balls

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879152174     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/13-AOS1104     Document Type: Article

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