Testing normality of spatially indexed functional data

DOI10.1002/CJS.11662MaRDI QIDQ5094295zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Siegfried Hörmann, Thomas Kuenzer, Piotr Kokoszka

Publication date 2 August 2022

Published in The Canadian Journal of Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.15839

zbMATH Keywords

functional dataprincipal componentsspatial statisticsnormality test

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Factor analysis and principal components; correspondence analysis (62H25) Inference from spatial processes (62M30) Hypothesis testing in multivariate analysis (62H15) Functional data analysis (62R10)

Abstract: We develop a test of normality for spatially indexed functions. The assumption of normality is common in spatial statistics, yet no significance tests, or other means of assessment, have been available for functional data. This paper aims at filling this gap in the case of functional observations on a spatial grid. Our test compares the moments of the spatial (frequency domain) principal component scores to those of a suitable Gaussian distribution. Critical values can be readily obtained from a chi-squared distribution. We provide rigorous theoretical justification for a broad class of weakly stationary functional random fields. We perform simulation studies to assess the the power of the test against various alternatives. An application to Surface Incoming Shortwave Radiation illustrates the practical value of this procedure.

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