Publications related to Autocovariance

Transportation-based functional ANOVA and PCA for covariance operators

Victor Panaretos, Yoav Zemel, Valentina Masarotto

We consider the problem of comparing several samples of stochastic processes with respect to their second-order structure, and describing the main modes of variation in this second order structure, if present. These tasks can be seen as an Analysis of Vari ...

Inst Mathematical Statistics-Ims2024

Positive Definite Completions and Continuous Graphical Models

Kartik Waghmare

This thesis concerns the theory of positive-definite completions and its mutually beneficial connections to the statistics of function-valued or continuously-indexed random processes, better known as functional data analysis. In particular, it dwells upon ...

EPFL2023

Detecting whether a stochastic process is finitely expressed in a basis

Victor Panaretos, Neda Mohammadi Jouzdani

Is it possible to detect if the sample paths of a stochastic process almost surely admit a finite expansion with respect to some/any basis? The determination is to be made on the basis of a finite collection of discretely/noisily observed sample paths. We ...

ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE2023

The DESI One-Percent Survey: Constructing Galaxy-Halo Connections for ELGs and LRGs Using Auto and Cross Correlations

Jiaxi Yu

In the current Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) survey, emission line galaxies (ELGs) and luminous red galaxies (LRGs) are essential for mapping the dark matter distribution at < N(M)>. We measure the auto and cross correlation functions of ELGs ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2023

On the rate of convergence for the autocorrelation operator in functional autoregression

Victor Panaretos, Alessia Caponera

We consider the problem of estimating the autocorrelation operator of an autoregressive Hilbertian process. By means of a Tikhonov approach, we establish a general result that yields the convergence rate of the estimated autocorrelation operator as a funct ...

ELSEVIER2022

Functional estimation of anisotropic covariance and autocovariance operators on the sphere

Victor Panaretos, Matthieu Martin Jean-André Simeoni, Julien René Pierre Fageot, Alessia Caponera

We propose nonparametric estimators for the second-order central moments of possibly anisotropic spherical random fields, within a functional data analysis context. We consider a measurement framework where each random field among an identically distribute ...

2022

Testing For The Rank Of A Covariance Operator

Victor Panaretos

How can we discern whether the covariance operator of a stochastic pro-cess is of reduced rank, and if so, what its precise rank is? And how can we do so at a given level of confidence? This question is central to a great deal of methods for functional dat ...

INST MATHEMATICAL STATISTICS-IMS2022

Sparsely Observed Functional Time Series: Theory and Applications

Tomas Rubin

Functional time series is a temporally ordered sequence of not necessarily independent random curves. While the statistical analysis of such data has been traditionally carried out under the assumption of completely observed functional data, it may well ha ...

EPFL2021

Certified And Fast Computations With Shallow Covariance Kernels

Daniel Kressner, Stefano Massei

Many techniques for data science and uncertainty quantification demand efficient tools to handle Gaussian random fields, which are defined in terms of their mean functions and covariance operators. Recently, parameterized Gaussian random fields have gained ...

AMER INST MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES-AIMS2020

Pairwise Comparisons with Flexible Time-Dynamics

Matthias Grossglauser, Victor Kristof, Lucas Maystre

Inspired by applications in sports where the skill of players or teams competing against each other varies over time, we propose a probabilistic model of pairwise-comparison outcomes that can capture a wide range of time dynamics. We achieve this by replac ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2019

Recovering covariance from functional fragments

Victor Panaretos, Marie-Hélène Descary

We consider nonparametric estimation of a covariance function on the unit square, given a sample of discretely observed fragments of functional data. When each sample path is observed only on a subinterval of length , one has no statistical information on ...

2019

Functional Data Analysis By Matrix Completion1

Victor Panaretos, Marie-Hélène Descary

Functional data analyses typically proceed by smoothing, followed by functional PCA. This paradigm implicitly assumes that rough variation is due to nuisance noise. Nevertheless, relevant functional features such as time-localised or short scale fluctuatio ...

INST MATHEMATICAL STATISTICS2019

Procrustes Metrics on Covariance Operators and Optimal Transportation of Gaussian Processes

Victor Panaretos, Yoav Zemel, Valentina Masarotto

Covariance operators are fundamental in functional data analysis, providing the canonical means to analyse functional variation via the celebrated Karhunen-Loeve expansion. These operators may themselves be subject to variation, for instance in contexts wh ...

2019

Super Resolution Phase Retrieval for Sparse Signals

Martin Vetterli, Juri Ranieri, Gilles Baechler, Amina Chebira, Miranda Krekovic

In a variety of fields, in particular those involving imaging and optics, we often measure signals whose phase is missing or has been irremediably distorted. Phase retrieval attempts to recover the phase information of a signal from the magnitude of its Fo ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2018

Methodology And Convergence Rates For Functional Time Series Regression

Victor Panaretos, Tung Huy Pham

The functional linear model extends the notion of linear regression to the case where the response and covariates are iid elements of an infinite-dimensional Hilbert space. The unknown to be estimated is a Hilbert-Schmidt operator, whose inverse is by defi ...

STATISTICA SINICA2018

Functional data analysis by matrix completion

Marie-Hélène Descary

Traditional approaches to analysing functional data typically follow a two-step procedure, consisting in first smoothing and then carrying out a functional principal component analysis. The idea underlying this procedure is that functional data are well ap ...

EPFL2017

The influence of anesthesia and fluid-structure interaction on simulated shear stress patterns in the carotid bifurcation of mice

Bram Trachet, Patrick Segers

Background: Low and oscillatory wall shear stresses (WSS) near aortic bifurcations have been linked to the onset of atherosclerosis. In previous work, we calculated detailed WSS patterns in the carotid bifurcation of mice using a Fluid-structure interactio ...

Elsevier Sci Ltd2016

Optical coherence correlation spectroscopy (OCCS)

Theo Lasser, Marcel Leutenegger, Christophe Pache, Arno Pino Bouwens, Stefan Geissbühler, Akihiro Sato, Stéphane Broillet

We present a new method called optical coherence correlation spectroscopy (OCCS) using nanoparticles as reporters of kinetic processes at the single particle level. OCCS is a spectral interferometry based method, thus giving simultaneous access to several ...

Optical Society of America2014

Fourier Analysis of Functional Time Series, with Applications to DNA Dynamics

Shahin Tavakoli

This work is about time series of functional data (functional time series), and consists of three main parts. In the first part (Chapter 2), we develop a doubly spectral decomposition for functional time series that generalizes the Karhunen–Loève expansion ...

EPFL2014

Probabilistic assessment of the process-noise covariance matrix of discrete Kalman filter state estimation of active distribution networks

Mario Paolone, Marco Pignati, Lorenzo Zanni, Sidi-Rachid Cherkaoui, Styliani Sarri

The accuracy of state estimators using the Kalman Filter (KF) is largely influenced by the measurement and the process noise covariance matrices. The former can be directly inferred from the available measurement devices whilst the latter needs to be asses ...

IEEE2014