A characterization of elliptical distributions and some optimality properties of principal components for functional data

Journal of Multivariate Analysis

Volumn 131, Issue , 2014, Pages 254-264

  Boente, Graciela ^a   Salibián Barrera, Matías ^b   Tyler, David E ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Elliptical distributions; Functional data analysis; Principal components

Indexed keywords

EID: 84907351389     PISSN: 0047259X     EISSN: 10957243     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmva.2014.07.006     Document Type: Article

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