文档介绍：Contributions to Statistics
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Frédéric Ferraty
Editor
Recent Advances
in Functional Data Analysis
and Related Topics
Editor
Frédéric Ferraty
Mathematics Toulouse Institute
Toulouse University
Narbonne road 118
31062 Toulouse
France
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ISSN 1431-1968
ISBN 978-3-7908-2735-4 e-ISBN 978-3-7908-2736-1
DOI -3-7908-2736-1
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Preface
Nowaday, the progress of high-technologies allow us to handle increasingly large
datasets. These massive datasets are usually called ”high-dimensional data”. At the
same time, different ways of introducing some continuum in the data appeared (use
of sophisticated monitoring devices, function-based descriptors as the density func-
tion for instance, etc).