Description

This devel version carries out exploratory and descriptive analysis of functional data exploring its most important features: such as depth measurements or functional outliers detection, among others.
It also helps to explain and model the relationship between a dependent variable and independent (regression models) and make predictions. Methods for supervised or unsupervised classification of a set of functional data regarding a feature of the data are also included. Finally, it can perform analysis of variance model (ANOVA) for functional data.

Details

Sections of fda.usc-package:

A.- Functional Data Representation
The functions included in this section allow to define, transform, manipulate and represent a functional dataset in many ways including derivatives, non-parametric kernel methods or basis representation.

B.- Functional Depth and Functional Outlier Detection

The functional data depth calculated by the different depth functions implemented that could be use as a measure of centrality or outlyingness.

B.1-Depth methods Depth:

B.2-Functional Outliers detection methods:

C.- Functional Regression Models

C.1. Functional explanatory covariate and scalar response
The functions included in this section allow the estimation of different functional regression models with a scalar response and a single functional explicative covariate.

C.2. Test for the functional linear model (FLM) with scalar response.

C.3. Functional and non functional explanatory covariates.
The functions in this section extends those regression models in previous section in several ways.

C.4. Functional response model (fregre.basis.fr) allows the estimation of functional regression models with a functional response and a single functional explicative covariate.

C.5. fregre.gls fits functional linear model using generalized least squares. fregre.igls fits iteratively a functional linear model using generalized least squares.

C.6. fregre.gsam.vs, Variable Selection using Functional Additive Models

D.- Functional Supervised Classification
This section allows the estimation of the groups in a training set of functional data fdata class by different nonparametric methods of supervised classification. Once these classifiers have been trained, they can be used to predict on new functional data.

Package allows the estimation of the groups in a training set of functional data by different methods of supervised classification.

D.1 Univariate predictor (x,y arguments, fdata class)

D.2 Multiple predictors (formula,data arguments, ldata class)

D.3 Depth classifiers (fdata or ldata class)

D.4 Functional Classification usign k-fold CV

E.- Functional Non-Supervised Classification
This section allows the estimation of the groups in a functional data set fdata class by kmeans method.

F.- Functional ANOVA

G.- Utilities and auxiliary functions:

Author(s)

Authors: Manuel Febrero Bande manuel.febrero@usc.es and Manuel Oviedo de la Fuente manuel.oviedo@usc.es

Contributors: Pedro Galeano, Alicia Nieto–Reyes, Eduardo Garcia-Portugues eduardo.garcia@usc.es and STAPH group http://www.lsp.ups-tlse.fr/staph/ STAPH group maintaining the page http://www.lsp.ups-tlse.fr/staph/

Maintainer: Manuel Oviedo de la Fuente manuel.oviedo@usc.es

References

Febrero-Bande, M., Oviedo de la Fuente, M. (2012). Statistical Computing in Functional Data Analysis: The R Package fda.usc. Journal of Statistical Software, 51(4), 1-28. http://www.jstatsoft.org/v51/i04/