A geometric approach to maximum likelihood estimation of the functional principal components from sparse longitudinal data

Details A geometric approach to maximum likelihood estimation of the functional principal components from sparse longitudinal data A geometric approach to maximum likelihood estimation of the functional principal components from sparse longitudinal data

2007-10-29

arxiv.org/abs/0710.5343v1

Statistics

Methodology

88 pages, 4 figures

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In this paper, we consider the problem of estimating the eigenvalues and eigenfunctions of the covariance kernel (i.e., the functional principal components) from sparse and irregularly observed longitudinal data. We approach this problem through a maximum likelihood method assuming that the covariance kernel is smooth and finite dimensional. We exploit the smoothness of the eigenfunctions to reduce dimensionality by restricting them to a lower dimensional space of smooth functions. The estimation scheme is developed based on a Newton-Raphson procedure using the fact that the basis coefficients representing the eigenfunctions lie on a Stiefel manifold. We also address the selection of the right number of basis functions, as well as that of the dimension of the covariance kernel by a second order approximation to the leave-one-curve-out cross-validation score that is computationally very efficient. The effectiveness of our procedure is demonstrated by simulation studies and an application to a CD4 counts data set. In the simulation studies, our method performs well on both estimation and model selection. It also outperforms two existing approaches: one based on a local polynomial smoothing of the empirical covariances, and another using an EM algorithm.

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