type="main" xml:id="rssc12061-abs-0001" <title type="main">Summary</title> <p>Motivated by a study exploring geographic disparities in test scores among fourth graders in North Carolina, we develop a multivariate mixture model for the spatial analysis of correlated continuous outcomes. The responses are modelled as a finite...</p>

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...