Functional and Operatorial Statistics

An increasing number of statistical problems and methods involve

infinite-dimensional aspects. This is due to the progress of

technologies which allow us to store more and more information while

modern instruments are able to collect data much more effectively

due to their increasingly sophisticated design. This evolution directly

concerns statisticians, who have to propose new methodologies while

taking into account such high-dimensional data (e.g. continuous processes,

functional data, etc.). The numerous applications (micro-arrays, paleo-

ecological data, radar waveforms, spectrometric curves, speech recognition,

continuous time series, 3-D images, etc.) in various fields (biology,

econometrics, environmetrics, the food industry, medical sciences, paper

industry, etc.) make researching this statistical topic very worthwhile. This book gathers important contributions on the functional and operatorial statistics fields