Checking date: 11/04/2018


Course: 2018/2019

Functional data analysis
(16645)
Bachelor in Data Science and Engineering (Plan: 392 - Estudio: 350)


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Department assigned to the subject: Statistics Department

Type: Electives
ECTS Credits: 6.0 ECTS

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Description of contents: programme
1. Introduction to the functional data analysis. 2. Tools for exploring functional data: a. Functional mean and variance. b. Covariance and correlation functions. c. Cross-covariance and cross-correlation functions. 3. From functional data to smooth functions: a. Basis functions. b. Smoothing functional data by least-squares. c. Smoothing functional data with a roughness penalty. 4. Principal component analysis for functional data: a. Defining functional PCA. b. Visualizing the results. c. Computational methods for functional PCA. d. Regularized PCA. 5. Regression for functional data: a. Functional linear models with scalar responses. b. Functional linear models with functional responses. 6. Supervised classification for functional data: a. k-nearest neighbors. 7. Unsupervised classification for functional data 1. k-means.
Assessment System
  • % end-of-term-examination 60
  • % of continuous assessment (assigments, laboratory, practicals...) 40

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