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Regular variation in Hilbert spaces and principal component analysis for functional extremes

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  • Clémençon, Stephan
  • Huet, Nathan
  • Sabourin, Anne

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Motivated by the increasing availability of data of functional nature, we develop a general probabilistic and statistical framework for extremes of regularly varying random elements X in L2[0,1]. We place ourselves in a Peaks-Over-Threshold framework where a functional extreme is defined as an observation X whose L2-norm ‖X‖ is comparatively large. Our goal is to propose a dimension reduction framework resulting into finite dimensional projections for such extreme observations. Our contribution is double. First, we investigate the notion of Regular Variation for random quantities valued in a general separable Hilbert space, for which we propose a novel concrete characterization involving solely stochastic convergence of real-valued random variables. Second, we propose a notion of functional Principal Component Analysis (PCA) accounting for the principal ‘directions’ of functional extremes. We investigate the statistical properties of the empirical covariance operator of the angular component of extreme functions, by upper-bounding the Hilbert–Schmidt norm of the estimation error for finite sample sizes. Numerical experiments with simulated and real data illustrate this work.

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  • Clémençon, Stephan & Huet, Nathan & Sabourin, Anne, 2024. "Regular variation in Hilbert spaces and principal component analysis for functional extremes," Stochastic Processes and their Applications, Elsevier, vol. 174(C).
  • Handle: RePEc:eee:spapps:v:174:y:2024:i:c:s0304414924000814
    DOI: 10.1016/j.spa.2024.104375
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