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Two-Sample Hypothesis Test for Functional Data

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  • Jing Zhao

    (China National Institute of Standardization, Beijing 100191, China)

  • Sanying Feng

    (School of Mathematics and Statistics, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001, China)

  • Yuping Hu

    (School of Mathematics and Statistics, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001, China)

Abstract

In this paper, we develop and study a novel testing procedure that has more a powerful ability to detect mean difference for functional data. In general, it includes two stages: first, splitting the sample into two parts and selecting principle components adaptively based on the first half-sample; then, constructing a test statistic based on another half-sample. An extensive simulation study is presented, which shows that the proposed test works very well in comparison with several other methods in a variety of alternative settings.

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  • Jing Zhao & Sanying Feng & Yuping Hu, 2022. "Two-Sample Hypothesis Test for Functional Data," Mathematics, MDPI, vol. 10(21), pages 1-16, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jmathe:v:10:y:2022:i:21:p:4060-:d:959852
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