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We present an extension of the functional data analysis framework for univariate functions to the analysis of surfaces: functions of two variables. The spatial spline regression (SSR) approach developed can be used to model surfaces that…

Methodology · Statistics 2013-06-17 Hien D. Nguyen , Geoffrey J. McLachlan , Ian A. Wood

Concerning bivariate least squares linear regression, the classical approach pursued for functional models in earlier attempts is reviewed using a new formalism in terms of deviation (matrix) traces. Within the framework of classical error…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-03-08 R. Caimmi

This article develops a unified framework to study the asymptotic properties of all periodic spline-based estimators, that is, of regression, penalized and smoothing splines. The explicit form of the periodic Demmler-Reinsch basis in terms…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-02-23 Katsiaryna Schwarz , Tatyana Krivobokova

This study develops a functional Liu-type shrinkage estimator (fLiu) for scalar-on-function regression in the presence of strong multicollinearity and high-dimensional functional predictors. The approach extends the classical Liu estimator…

Other Statistics · Statistics 2026-05-05 Shaista Ashraf , Stephen Becker , Farrukh Javed , Ismail Shah

This paper introduces a novel spatial scalar-on-function quantile regression model that extends classical scalar-on-function models to account for spatial dependence and heterogeneous conditional distributions. The proposed model…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-10-21 Muge Mutis , Ufuk Beyaztas , Filiz Karaman , Han Lin Shang

We study a problem of estimation of smooth functionals of parameter $\theta $ of Gaussian shift model $$ X=\theta +\xi,\ \theta \in E, $$ where $E$ is a separable Banach space and $X$ is an observation of unknown vector $\theta$ in Gaussian…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-11-19 Vladimir Koltchinskii , Mayya Zhilova

Large samples have been generated routinely from various sources. Classic statistical models, such as smoothing spline ANOVA models, are not well equipped to analyze such large samples due to expensive computational costs. In particular,…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-04-23 Xiaoxiao Sun , Wenxuan Zhong , Ping Ma

The thin plate spline smoother is a classical model for fnding a smooth function from the knowledge of its observation at scattered locations which may have random noises. We consider a nonconforming Morley finite element method to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-01-31 Zhiming Chen , Rui Tuo , Wenlong Zhang

We introduce and analyze an algorithm for the minimization of convex functions that are the sum of differentiable terms and proximable terms composed with linear operators. The method builds upon the recently developed smoothed gap…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-06-20 Quang Van Nguyen , Olivier Fercoq , Volkan Cevher

Nonparametric regression models with locally stationary covariates have received increasing interest in recent years. As a nice relief of "curse of dimensionality" induced by large dimension of covariates, additive regression model is…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-12-02 Lixia Hu , Tao Huang , Jinhong You

Regression spline is a useful tool in nonparametric regression. However, finding the optimal knot locations is a known difficult problem. In this article, we introduce the Non-concave Penalized Regression Spline. This proposal method not…

Methodology · Statistics 2012-09-11 Heng Peng

In Astronomy, Survival Analysis and Epidemiology, among many other fields, doubly truncated data often appear. Double truncation generally induces a sampling bias, so ordinary estimators may be inconsistent. In this paper, smoothing spline…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-01-15 David Bamio , Jacobo de Uña-Álvarez

This article improves on existing methods to estimate the spectral density of stationary and nonstationary time series assuming a Gaussian process prior. By optimising an appropriate eigendecomposition using a smoothing spline covariance…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-06-01 Nick James , Max Menzies

Smoothing splines can be thought of as the posterior mean of a Gaussian process regression in a certain limit. By constructing a reproducing kernel Hilbert space with an appropriate inner product, the Bayesian form of the V-spline is…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-07-25 Zhanglong Cao , David Bryant , Matthew Parry

This text is the rejoinder following the discussion of a survey paper about minimal penalties and the slope heuristics (Arlot, 2019. Minimal penalties and the slope heuristics: a survey. Journal de la SFDS). While commenting on the remarks…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-10-25 Sylvain Arlot

Due to the non-smoothness of optimization problems in Machine Learning, generalized smoothness assumptions have been gaining a lot of attention in recent years. One of the most popular assumptions of this type is $(L_0,L_1)$-smoothness…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-30 Eduard Gorbunov , Nazarii Tupitsa , Sayantan Choudhury , Alen Aliev , Peter Richtárik , Samuel Horváth , Martin Takáč

Functional data analysis tools, such as function-on-function regression models, have received considerable attention in various scientific fields because of their observed high-dimensional and complex data structures. Several statistical…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-09-22 Ufuk Beyaztas , Han Lin Shang

We consider nonparametric estimation of the mean and covariance functions for functional/longitudinal data. Strong uniform convergence rates are developed for estimators that are local-linear smoothers. Our results are obtained in a unified…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2012-11-12 Yehua Li , Tailen Hsing

This paper addresses the problem of estimating a convex regression function under both the sup-norm risk and the pointwise risk using B-splines. The presence of the convex constraint complicates various issues in asymptotic analysis,…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2012-05-02 Xiao Wang , Jinglai Shen

An error control technique aimed to assess the quality of smoothed finite element approximations is presented in this paper. Finite element techniques based on strain smoothing appeared in 2007 were shown to provide significant advantages…