[Statlist] Next talk: Friday, April 04, 2014 with Alessio Sancetta, Royal Holloway, University of London

[Rey-Lutz Cecilia]

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ETH and University of Zurich

Organisers:
Profs. P. Bühlmann - R. Furrer - L. Held - T. Hothorn - H.R. Kuensch - M. Maathuis -
N. Meinshausen - S. van de Geer - M. Wolf

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We are glad to announce the following talk

Friday, April 04, 2014 at 15.15h  ETH Zurich HG G 19.1
with Alessio Sancetta, Royal Holloway, University of London
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Title:
A Nonparametric Estimator for the Covariance Function of Functional Data

Abstract:
Many quantities of interest in economics and finance can be represented as partially observed functional data. Examples include structural business cycles estimation, implied volatility smile, the yield curve. Having embedded these quantities into continuous random curves, estimation of the covariance function is needed to extract factors, perform dimensionality reduction, and conduct inference on the factor scores. A series expansion for the covariance function is considered. Under summability restrictions on the absolute values of the coefficients in the series expansion, an estimation procedure that is resilient to overfitting is proposed. Under certain conditions, the rate of consistency for the resulting estimator is nearly the parametric rate when the observations are weakly dependent. When the domain of the functional data is K(> 1) dimensional, the absolute summability restriction of the coefficients avoids the so called curse of dimensionality. As an application, a Box-Pierce statistic to test independence of partially observed functional data is derived. Simulation results and an empirical investigation of the efficiency of the Eurodollar futures contracts on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange are included.


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