On the optimal reconstruction of partially observed functional data

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Abstract: We propose a new reconstruction operator that aims to recover the missing parts of a function given the observed parts. This new operator belongs to a new, very large class of functional operators which includes the classical regression operators as a special case. We show the optimality of our reconstruction operator and demonstrate that the usually considered regression operators generally cannot be optimal reconstruction operators. Our estimation theory allows for autocorrelated functional data and considers the practically relevant situation in which each of the n functions is observed at mi, i=1,dots,n, discretization points. We derive rates of consistency for our nonparametric estimation procedures using a double asymptotic. For data situations, as in our real data application where mi is considerably smaller than n, we show that our functional principal components based estimator can provide better rates of convergence than conventional nonparametric smoothing methods.


The aim of the paper is to develop a reconstruction procedure for recovering functions from their partial observations. Assume that \(X_1,\dots,X_n\) is an identical distributed, weakly dependent sample of continuous random functions and denote by \(X_i^{O}\) the observed parts of \(X_i\) and by \(X_i^{M}\) the missing parts of \(X_i\). To reconstruct the unobserved missing parts knowing the partial observations, the linear reconstruction model \(X_i^M = L(X_i^O) + Z_i\) is considered. The goal is to identify the optimal linear reconstruction operator \(L: {\mathbb{L}}^2(O) \to{\mathbb{L}}^2(M)\) that minimizes the mean squared error loss \(\mathbb{E}[(X_i^M(u)-L(X_i^O)(u))^2]\), for \(u\in M\). In the second section, the reconstruction operator \(\mathcal{L}(X_i^O)\) is introduced and an optimal linear reconstruction result is obtained. Estimators for \(\mathcal{L}\) from real data and estimating procedures are developed in the third section and asymptotic results in the fourth section. An iterative reconstruction algorithm is described in the fifth section and the performance of the considered reconstruction operators in the part devoted to the simulation study. Some applications are shown in the last part of the article. Proofs and additional theoretical results are reported to be contained in a supplementary paper, \url{doi:10.1214/19-AOS1864SUPP}.




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