a continuous time stochastic process are called functional data. This paper is concerned with comparing two or more … stochastic processes that generate functional data. The data may be produced by a randomized experiment in which there are … data. In contrast to existing methods, the test described here applies to both functional data and multiple treatments. The …

Advances in data collection and storage have tremendously increased the presence of functional data, whose graphical … representations are curves, images or shapes. As a new area of statistics, functional data analysis extends existing methodologies and … principal component analysis, and its use in explanatory analysis, modeling and forecasting, and classification of functional …