Overview
- Provides documentation for the S-PLUS module on functional data analysis
- Will supplement our two books on this topic by Ramsay/Silverman
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
S+Functional Data Analysis is the first commercial object oriented package for exploring, modeling, and analyzing functional data. Functional data analysis (FDA) handles longitudinal data and treats each observation as a function of time (or other variable). The functions are related. The goal is to analyze a sample of functions instead of a sample of related points.
FDA differs from traditional data analytic techniques in a number of ways. Functions can be evaluated at any point in their domain. Derivatives and integrals, which may provide better information (e.g. graphical) than the original data, are easily computed and used in multivariate and other functional analytic methods.
The analyst using S+FDA can handle irregularly spaced data or data with missing values. For large amounts of data, working with a functional representation can save storage. Moreover, S+FDA provides a variety of analytic techniques for functional data including linear models, generalized linear models, principal components, canonical correlation, principal differential analysis, and clustering.
This book can be considered a companion to two other highly acclaimed books involving James Ramsay and Bernard Silverman: Functional Data Analysis, Second Edition (2005) and Applied Functional Data Analysis (2002). This user's manual also provides the documentation for the S+FDA library for SPlus.
From the reviews:
"The book offers an overview of the basics of functional data approaches as well as a weath of information, sample code, and examples about each of these methods in a clear well-presented manner. The book provides a well-written discussion of how and when to use the functions, and it will be a useful and convenient reference for those getting started with functional analyses." The American Statistician, May 2006, Vol. 60, No. 2
Reviews
From the reviews of the first edition:
"The book offers an overview of the basics of functional data approaches as well as a weath of information, sample code, and examples about each of these methods in a clear well-presented manner. The book provides a well-written discussion of how and when to use the functions, and it will be a useful and convenient reference for those getting started with functional analyses." The American Statistician, May 2006, Vol. 60, No. 2
"This book is a short user’s manual for functional data analysis software in S+FDA library, which is an S-Plus implementation of Ramsey and Silverman’s (1997,2002) books by Insightful Corporation. This software is free, and S+FDA library can be easily downloaded from Insightful’s webpage. … the S-Plus codes and illustrations given in this book will be helpful for the reader to learn how to use S+FDA library for carrying out functional data analysis on their own data set." (Anil K. Ghosh, The Indian Journal of Statistics, Vol. 68, 2006)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: S+Functional Data Analysis
Book Subtitle: User's Manual for Windows ®
Authors: Douglas B. Clarkson, Chris Fraley, Charles C. Gu, James O. Ramsey
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-28393-5
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Mathematics and Statistics, Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag New York 2005
Softcover ISBN: 978-0-387-24969-8
eBook ISBN: 978-0-387-28393-7
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 192
Topics: Statistics and Computing/Statistics Programs, Statistical Theory and Methods, Statistics for Engineering, Physics, Computer Science, Chemistry and Earth Sciences, Statistics for Life Sciences, Medicine, Health Sciences