Object-Oriented Software for Functional Data

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Title

Object-Oriented Software for Functional Data

Subject

functional data analysis, functional principal component analysis, multivariate
functional data, object orientation, simulation

Description

This paper introduces the funData R package as an object-oriented implementation of
functional data. It implements a unified framework for dense univariate and multivariate
functional data on one- and higher dimensional domains as well as for irregular functional
data. The aim of this package is to provide a user-friendly, self-contained core toolbox for
functional data, including important functionalities for creating, accessing and modifying
functional data objects, that can serve as a basis for other packages. The package further
contains a full simulation toolbox, which is a useful feature when implementing and testing
new methodological developments.
Based on the theory of object-oriented data analysis, it is shown why it is natural
to implement functional data in an object-oriented manner. The classes and methods
provided by funData are illustrated in many examples using two freely available datasets.
The MFPCA package, which implements multivariate functional principal component
analysis, is presented as an example for an advanced methodological package that uses
the funData package as a basis, including a case study with real data. Both packages are
publicly available on GitHub and the Comprehensive R Archive Network.

Creator

Clara Happ-Kurz

Source

https://www.jstatsoft.org/article/view/v093i05

Publisher

LMU Munich

Date

April 2020

Contributor

Fajar bagus W

Format

PDF

Language

Inggris

Type

Text

Files

Citation

Clara Happ-Kurz, “Object-Oriented Software for Functional Data,” Repository Horizon University Indonesia, accessed April 4, 2025, https://repository.horizon.ac.id/items/show/8124.