Journal
JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL STATISTICAL SOCIETY SERIES B-STATISTICAL METHODOLOGY
Volume 74, Issue -, Pages 267-286Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9868.2011.01003.x
Keywords
Bayes classifier; Centroid method classifier; Cross-validation; Dimension reduction; Error rate; Gaussian process; Linear model; Projection
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- Australian Research Council
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. We show that, in functional data classification problems, perfect asymptotic classification is often possible, making use of the intrinsic very high dimensional nature of functional data. This performance is often achieved by linear methods, which are optimal in important cases. These results point to a marked contrast between classification for functional data and its counterpart in conventional multivariate analysis, where the dimension is kept fixed as the sample size diverges. In the latter setting, linear methods can sometimes be quite inefficient, and there are no prospects for asymptotically perfect classification, except in pathological cases where, for example, a variance vanishes. By way of contrast, in finite samples of functional data, good performance can be achieved by truncated versions of linear methods. Truncation can be implemented by partial least squares or projection onto a finite number of principal components, using, in both cases, cross-validation to determine the truncation point. We establish consistency of the cross-validation procedure.
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