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Minimax estimation of functional principal components from noisy discretized functional data

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  • Ryad Belhakem
  • Franck Picard
  • Vincent Rivoirard
  • Angelina Roche

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Functional Principal Component Analysis is a reference method for dimension reduction of curve data. Its theoretical properties are now well understood in the simplified case where the sample curves are fully observed without noise. However, functional data are noisy and necessarily observed on a finite discretization grid. Common practice consists in smoothing the data and then to compute the functional estimates, but the impact of this denoising step on the procedure's statistical performance are rarely considered. Here we prove new convergence rates for functional principal component estimators. We introduce a double asymptotic framework: one corresponding to the sampling size and a second to the size of the grid. We prove that estimates based on projection onto histograms show optimal rates in a minimax sense. Theoretical results are illustrated on simulated data and the method is applied to the visualization of genomic data.

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  • Ryad Belhakem & Franck Picard & Vincent Rivoirard & Angelina Roche, 2025. "Minimax estimation of functional principal components from noisy discretized functional data," Scandinavian Journal of Statistics, Danish Society for Theoretical Statistics;Finnish Statistical Society;Norwegian Statistical Association;Swedish Statistical Association, vol. 52(1), pages 38-80, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:scjsta:v:52:y:2025:i:1:p:38-80
    DOI: 10.1111/sjos.12719
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