NMAK15013U Functional Data Analysis

Knowledge:

• Recognize the possibilities and challenges with functional data
• Recognize similarities and differences between methods for low-dimensional data, high-dimensional data, and functional data
• Understand methods used for smoothing, alignment, PCA, regression

Skills:

• Carry out simple data analyses with functional data
• Use R to carry out smoothing, alignment, PCA, regression
• Read scientific papers in the area (applied and theoretical)

Competences:

• Choose appropriate statistical methods of functional data, taking into account their functional nature and the purpose of the analysis
• Evaluate the appropriateness of methods in analyses of functional data in scientific papers