Regression based principal component analysis for sparse functional data with applications to screening growth paths

DOI10.1214/15-AOAS811zbMATH Open1397.62213arXiv1509.05224OpenAlexW2105336538MaRDI QIDQ746647FDOQ746647

Authors: Wenfei Zhang, Ying Wei 

Publication date: 28 October 2015

Published in: The Annals of Applied Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Growth charts are widely used in pediatric care for assessing childhood body size measurements (e.g., height or weight). The existing growth charts screen one body size at a single given age. However, when a child has multiple measures over time and exhibits a growth path, how to assess those measures jointly in a rigorous and quantitative way remains largely undeveloped in the literature. In this paper, we develop a new method to construct growth charts for growth paths. A new estimation algorithm using alternating regressions is developed to obtain principal component representations of growth paths (sparse functional data). The new algorithm does not rely on strong distribution assumptions and is computationally robust and easily incorporates subject level covariates, such as parental information. Simulation studies are conducted to investigate the performance of our proposed method, including comparisons to existing methods. When the proposed method is applied to monitor the puberty growth among a group of Finnish teens, it yields interesting insights.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1509.05224

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zbMATH Keywords

longitudinal dataprincipal component analysissparse functional datagrowth charts

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Factor analysis and principal components; correspondence analysis (62H25) Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis (62P10)

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