International audienceKernel estimates of a regression operator are investigated when the explanatory variable is of functional type. The bandwidths are locally chosen by a data-driven method based on the minimization of a functional version of a cross-validated criterion. A short asymptotic theoretical support is provided and the main body of this paper is devoted to various finite sample size applications. In particular, it is shown through some simulations, that a local bandwidth choice enables to capture some underlying heterogeneous structures in the functional dataset. As a consequence, the estimation of the relationship between a functional variable and a scalar response, and hence the prediction, can be significantly improved by using local smoothing parameter selection rather than global one. This is also confirmed from a chemometrical real functional dataset. These improvements are much more important than in standard finite dimensional setting
The problem of estimating the regression function in a fixed design models with correlated observations is considered. Such observations are obtained from several experimental units, each of them forms a time series. Based on the trapezoidal rule, we propose a simple kernel estimator and we derive the asymptotic expression of its integrated mean squared error IMSE and its asymptotic normality. The problems of the optimal bandwidth and the optimal design with respect to the asymptotic IMSE are also investigated. Finally, a simulation study is conducted to study the performance of the new estimator and to compare it with the classical estimator of Gasser and Müller in a finite sample set.
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