Graciela Boente

Bio: Graciela Boente is an academic researcher from Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. The author has contributed to research in topics: Estimator & Asymptotic distribution. The author has an hindex of 20, co-authored 63 publications receiving 1370 citations. Previous affiliations of Graciela Boente include National Scientific and Technical Research Council & University of Buenos Aires.

Robust principal component analysis for functional data

Abstract: A method for exploring the structure of populations of complex objects, such as images, is considered. The objects are summarized by feature vectors. The statistical backbone is Principal Component Analysis in the space of feature vectors. Visual insights come from representing the results in the original data space. In an ophthalmological example, endemic outliers motivate the development of a bounded influence approach to PCA.

Robust functional principal components: A projection-pursuit approach

Abstract: In many situations, data are recorded over a period of time and may be regarded as realizations of a stochastic process. In this paper, robust estimators for the principal components are considered by adapting the projection pursuit approach to the functional data setting. Our approach combines robust projection-pursuit with different smoothing methods. Consistency of the estimators are shown under mild assumptions. The performance of the classical and robust procedures are compared in a simulation study under different contamination schemes.

Robust functional principal components: A projection-pursuit approach

Abstract: In many situations, data are recorded over a period of time and may be regarded as realizations of a stochastic process. In this paper, robust estimators for the principal components are considered by adapting the projection pursuit approach to the functional data setting. Our approach combines robust projection-pursuit with different smoothing methods. Consistency of the estimators are shown under mild assumptions. The performance of the classical and robust procedures are compared in a simulation study under different contamination schemes. 1. Introduction. Analogous to classical principal components analysis (PCA), the projection-pursuit approach to robust PCA is based on finding projections of the data which have maximal dispersion. Instead of using the variance as a measure of dispersion, a robust scale estimator sn is used for the maximization problem. This approach was introduced by Li and Chen (1985), who proposed estimators based on maximizing (or minimizing) a robust scale. In this way, given a sample xi ∈ R d ,1 ≤ i ≤ n, the first robust principal component vector is defined as

Robust Nonparametric Regression Estimation for Dependent Observations

Abstract: Robust nonparametric estimators for regression and autoregression are proposed for $\varphi$- and $\alpha$-mixing processes. Two families of $M$-type robust equivariant estimators are considered: (i) estimators based on kernel methods and (ii) estimators based on $k$-nearest neighbor kernel methods. Strong consistency of both families is proved under mild conditions. For the first class the result is true under no assumptions whatsoever on the distribution of the observations.

Convergence of Probability Measures

Abstract: Convergence of Probability Measures. By P. Billingsley. Chichester, Sussex, Wiley, 1968. xii, 253 p. 9 1/4“. 117s.

Principal component analysis: a review and recent developments

Abstract: Large datasets are increasingly common and are often difficult to interpret. Principal component analysis (PCA) is a technique for reducing the dimensionality of such datasets, increasing interpretability but at the same time minimizing information loss. It does so by creating new uncorrelated variables that successively maximize variance. Finding such new variables, the principal components, reduces to solving an eigenvalue/eigenvector problem, and the new variables are defined by the dataset at hand, not a priori , hence making PCA an adaptive data analysis technique. It is adaptive in another sense too, since variants of the technique have been developed that are tailored to various different data types and structures. This article will begin by introducing the basic ideas of PCA, discussing what it can and cannot do. It will then describe some variants of PCA and their application.

Functional Data Analysis for Sparse Longitudinal Data

Abstract: We propose a nonparametric method to perform functional principal components analysis for the case of sparse longitudinal data. The method aims at irregularly spaced longitudinal data, where the number of repeated measurements available per subject is small. In contrast, classical functional data analysis requires a large number of regularly spaced measurements per subject. We assume that the repeated measurements are located randomly with a random number of repetitions for each subject and are determined by an underlying smooth random (subject-specific) trajectory plus measurement errors. Basic elements of our approach are the parsimonious estimation of the covariance structure and mean function of the trajectories, and the estimation of the variance of the measurement errors. The eigenfunction basis is estimated from the data, and functional principal components score estimates are obtained by a conditioning step. This conditional estimation method is conceptually simple and straightforward to implement...