A powerful test based on tapering for use in functional data analysis

Electronic Journal of Statistics

Volumn 2, Issue , 2008, Pages 939-962

  Spitzner, Dan J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Fourier decomposition; Functional data analysis; High Dimensional testing; Quadratic forms; Rates of testing

Indexed keywords

EID: 85012861293     PISSN: 19357524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/08-EJS172     Document Type: Article

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