Petrone, Sonia; Guindani, Michele; Gelfand, Alan E. - In: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B 71 (2009) 4, pp. 755-782
In functional data analysis, curves or surfaces are observed, up to measurement error, at a finite set of locations, for, say, a sample of "n" individuals. Often, the curves are homogeneous, except perhaps for individual-specific regions that provide heterogeneous behaviour (e.g. 'damaged' areas...