P(enalized)-splines and fractional polynomials (FPs) have emerged as powerful smoothing techniques with increasing popularity in applied research. Both approaches provide considerable flexibility, but only limited comparative evaluations of the performance and properties of the two methods have...

The objective of this dissertation is to develop a suitable statistical methodologyfor functional data analysis. Modern advanced technology allows researchers to collectsamples as functional which means the ideal unit of samples is a curve. We considereach functional observation as the resulting...

In this article we present a Bayesian hierarchical modeling approach for imaging genetics, where the interest lies in linking brain connectivity across multiple individuals to their genetic information. We have available data from a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study on...