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We propose in this work to derive a CLT in the functional linear regression model. The main difficulty is due to the fact that estimation of the functional parameter leads to a kind of ill-posed inverse problem. We consider estimators that belong to a large class of regularizing methods and we first show that, contrary to the multivariate case, it is not possible to state a CLT in the topology of the considered functional space. However, we show that we can get a CLT for the weak topology under mild hypotheses and in particular without assuming any strong assumptions on the decay of the eigenvalues of the covariance operator. Rates of convergence depend on the smoothness of the functional coefficient and on the point in which the prediction is made.
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Cardot, H., Mas, A. & Sarda, P. CLT in functional linear regression models. Probab. Theory Relat. Fields 138, 325–361 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00440-006-0025-2
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Keywords
- Central limit theorem
- Hilbertian random variables
- Functional data analysis
- Covariance operator
- Inverse problem
- Regularization
- Perturbation theory