Functional principal components (FPC’s) provide the most important and most extensively used tool for dimension reduction and inference for functional data. The selection of the number, d, of the FPC’s to be used in a specific procedure has attracted a fair amount of attention, and a number...

The paper develops a comprehensive asymptotic theory for the estimation of a change-point in the mean function of functional observations. We consider both the case of a constant change size, and the case of a change whose size approaches zero, as the sample size tends to infinity. We show how...

The functional autoregressive process has become a useful tool in the analysis of functional time series data. It is defined by the equation , in which the observations Xn and errors [epsilon]n are curves, and is an operator. To ensure meaningful inference and prediction based on this model, it...

We develop procedures for testing for changes in the mean of multivariatem-dependent stationary processes. Several test statistics are considered and corresponding limit theorems are derived. These include functional and Darling-Erdos type limit theorems. The tests are shown to be consistent...