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Robust functional principal components: A projection-pursuit approach

Statistics Theory 2012-03-12 v1 Statistics Theory

Abstract

In many situations, data are recorded over a period of time and may be regarded as realizations of a stochastic process. In this paper, robust estimators for the principal components are considered by adapting the projection pursuit approach to the functional data setting. Our approach combines robust projection-pursuit with different smoothing methods. Consistency of the estimators are shown under mild assumptions. The performance of the classical and robust procedures are compared in a simulation study under different contamination schemes.

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@article{arxiv.1203.2027,
  title  = {Robust functional principal components: A projection-pursuit approach},
  author = {Juan Lucas Bali and Graciela Boente and David E. Tyler and Jane-Ling Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1203.2027},
  year   = {2012}
}

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Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/11-AOS923 the Annals of Statistics (http://www.imstat.org/aos/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)

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