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Traditional Functional Principal Component Analysis typically focuses on densely observed univariate functional data, yet many applications, particularly in longitudinal studies, involve multivariate functional data observed sparsely and…

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Motivated by recent work involving the analysis of biomedical imaging data, we present a novel procedure for constructing simultaneous confidence corridors for the mean of imaging data. We propose to use flexible bivariate splines over…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-06-08 Yueying Wang , Guannan Wang , Li Wang , R. Todd Ogden

The paper proposes a method for constructing a sparse estimator for the inverse covariance (concentration) matrix in high-dimensional settings. The estimator uses a penalized normal likelihood approach and forces sparsity by using a…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2008-06-26 Adam J. Rothman , Peter J. Bickel , Elizaveta Levina , Ji Zhu

We propose new methods for multivariate linear regression when the regression coefficient matrix is sparse and the error covariance matrix is dense. We assume that the error covariance matrix has equicorrelation across the response…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-08-13 Daeyoung Ham , Bradley S. Price , Adam J. Rothman

We propose a simple and efficient algorithm for learning sparse invariant representations from unlabeled data with fast inference. When trained on short movies sequences, the learned features are selective to a range of orientations and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2011-05-27 Karol Gregor , Yann LeCun

We consider the problem of estimating sparse graphs by a lasso penalty applied to the inverse covariance matrix. Using a coordinate descent procedure for the lasso, we develop a simple algorithm that is remarkably fast: in the worst cases,…

Methodology · Statistics 2007-08-28 Jerome Friedman , Trevor Hastie , Robert Tibshirani

Estimation of covariance matrices is a fundamental problem in multivariate statistics. Recently, growing efforts have focused on incorporating covariate effects into these matrices, facilitating subject-specific estimation. Despite these…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-04-10 Rakheon Kim , Emma Jingfei Zhang

The problem of covariance estimation for replicated surface-valued processes is examined from the functional data analysis perspective. Considerations of statistical and computational efficiency often compel the use of separability of the…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-10-25 Tomas Masak , Victor M. Panaretos

Accurately specifying covariance structures is critical for valid inference in longitudinal and functional data analysis, particularly when data are sparsely observed. In this study, we develop a global goodness-of-fit test to assess…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-03-31 Dhrubajyoti Ghosh , Zhuolin Song , Luo Xiao , Sheng Luo

In this paper, we propose methods for functional predictor selection and the estimation of smooth functional coefficients simultaneously in a scalar-on-function regression problem under high-dimensional multivariate functional data setting.…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-05-04 Ali Mahzarnia , Jun Song

We propose a method for estimating a covariance matrix that can be represented as a sum of a low-rank matrix and a diagonal matrix. The proposed method compresses high-dimensional data, computes the sample covariance in the compressed…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-04-04 Gautam Sabnis , Debdeep Pati , Anirban Bhattacharya

Tensor regression models, such as CP regression and Tucker regression, have many successful applications in neuroimaging analysis where the covariates are of ultrahigh dimensionality and possess complex spatial structures. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-29 Da Xu

Neuroimage analysis usually involves learning thousands or even millions of variables using only a limited number of samples. In this regard, sparse models, e.g. the lasso, are applied to select the optimal features and achieve high…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-03-26 Bo Xin , Lingjing Hu , Yizhou Wang , Wen Gao

In this paper, we propose a novel approach to fit a functional linear regression in which both the response and the predictor are functions of a common variable such as time. We consider the case that the response and the predictor…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-11-15 Behdad Mostafaiy , MohammadReza FaridRohani , Shojaeddin Chenouri

Longitudinal data analysis is fundamental for understanding dynamic processes in biomedical and social sciences. Although varying coefficient models (VCMs) provide a flexible framework by allowing covariate effects to evolve over time,…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-03-10 Yu Lu , Tianni Zhang , Yuyao Wang , Mengfei Ran

Ultra-high dimensional longitudinal data are increasingly common and the analysis is challenging both theoretically and methodologically. We offer a new automatic procedure for finding a sparse semivarying coefficient model, which is widely…

Methodology · Statistics 2014-09-24 Ming-Yen Cheng , Toshio Honda , Jialiang Li , Heng Peng

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

In this article, we propose a penalized clustering method for large scale data with multiple covariates through a functional data approach. In the proposed method, responses and covariates are linked together through nonparametric…

Methodology · Statistics 2008-01-17 Ping Ma , Wenxuan Zhong

Longitudinal binary or count functional data are common in neuroscience, but are often too large to analyze with existing functional regression methods. We propose one-step penalized generalized estimating equations that supports…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-03-31 Gabriel Loewinger , Alex W. Levis , Erjia Cui , Francisco Pereira

Inference via simultaneous confidence band is studied for stationary covariance function of dense functional data. A two-stage estimation procedure is proposed based on spline approximation, the first stage involving estimation of all the…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-10-31 Jiangyan Wang , Guanqun Cao , Li Wang , Lijian Yang