Air pollution, especially ground-level ozone, poses severe threats to human health and ecosystems. Accurate forecasting of ozone concentrations is essential for reducing its adverse effects. This study aims to use the functional time series approach to model ozone concentrations, a method less...

This paper is inspired by medical studies in which the same patients with multiple sclerosis are examined at several successive visits (doctor's appointments) and described by fractional anisotropy tract profiles, which can be represented as f unctions. Since the observations for each patient...

For a spatiotemporal process {Xj(s,t)∣s∈S,t∈T}j=1,…,n, where S denotes the set of spatial locations and T the time domain, we consider the problem of testing for a change in the sequence of mean functions {μj(s,t)∣s∈S,t∈T}j=1,…,n. In contrast to most of the literature, we are...

The coefficient of the variation function is a useful descriptive statistic, especially when comparing the variability of more than two curve groups, even when they have significantly different mean curves. Since the coefficient of variation function is the ratio of the mean and standard...