Homogeneity Tests of Covariance for High-Dimensional Functional Data with Applications to Event Segmentation
Affiliation:
1. Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago , Chicago, Illinois , USA
Abstract
Abstract
We consider inference problems for high-dimensional (HD) functional data with a dense number of T repeated measurements taken for a large number of p variables from a small number of n experimental units. The spatial and temporal dependence, high dimensionality, and dense number of repeated measurements pose theoretical and computational challenges. This paper has two aims; our first aim is to solve the theoretical and computational challenges in testing equivalence among covariance matrices from HD functional data. The second aim is to provide computationally efficient and tuning-free tools with guaranteed stochastic error control. The weak convergence of the stochastic process formed by the test statistics is established under the “large p, large T, and small n” setting. If the null is rejected, we further show that the locations of the change points can be estimated consistently. The estimator's rate of convergence is shown to depend on the data dimension, sample size, number of repeated measurements, and signal-to-noise ratio. We also show that our proposed computation algorithms can significantly reduce the computation time and are applicable to real-world data with a large number of HD-repeated measurements (e.g., functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data). Simulation results demonstrate both the finite sample performance and computational effectiveness of our proposed procedures. We observe that the empirical size of the test is well controlled at the nominal level, and the locations of multiple change points can be accurately identified. An application to fMRI data demonstrates that our proposed methods can identify event boundaries in the preface of the television series Sherlock. Code to implement the procedures is available in an R package named TechPhD.
Funder
National Science Foundation
National Institutes of Health
Publisher
Oxford University Press (OUP)
Subject
Applied Mathematics,General Agricultural and Biological Sciences,General Immunology and Microbiology,General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology,General Medicine,Statistics and Probability
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