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November 2013 Confidence bands for Horvitz–Thompson estimators using sampled noisy functional data
Hervé Cardot, David Degras, Etienne Josserand
Bernoulli 19(5A): 2067-2097 (November 2013). DOI: 10.3150/12-BEJ443

Abstract

When collections of functional data are too large to be exhaustively observed, survey sampling techniques provide an effective way to estimate global quantities such as the population mean function. Assuming functional data are collected from a finite population according to a probabilistic sampling scheme, with the measurements being discrete in time and noisy, we propose to first smooth the sampled trajectories with local polynomials and then estimate the mean function with a Horvitz–Thompson estimator. Under mild conditions on the population size, observation times, regularity of the trajectories, sampling scheme, and smoothing bandwidth, we prove a Central Limit theorem in the space of continuous functions. We also establish the uniform consistency of a covariance function estimator and apply the former results to build confidence bands for the mean function. The bands attain nominal coverage and are obtained through Gaussian process simulations conditional on the estimated covariance function. To select the bandwidth, we propose a cross-validation method that accounts for the sampling weights. A simulation study assesses the performance of our approach and highlights the influence of the sampling scheme and bandwidth choice.

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Hervé Cardot. David Degras. Etienne Josserand. "Confidence bands for Horvitz–Thompson estimators using sampled noisy functional data." Bernoulli 19 (5A) 2067 - 2097, November 2013. https://doi.org/10.3150/12-BEJ443

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Published: November 2013
First available in Project Euclid: 5 November 2013

zbMATH: 06254554
MathSciNet: MR3129044
Digital Object Identifier: 10.3150/12-BEJ443

Keywords: CLT , functional data , local polynomial smoothing , Maximal inequalities , space of continuous functions , suprema of Gaussian processes , survey sampling , weighted cross-validation

Rights: Copyright © 2013 Bernoulli Society for Mathematical Statistics and Probability

Vol.19 • No. 5A • November 2013
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