278 research outputs found
A test of significance in functional quadratic regression
We consider a quadratic functional regression model in which a scalar
response depends on a functional predictor; the common functional linear model
is a special case. We wish to test the significance of the nonlinear term in
the model. We develop a testing method which is based on projecting the
observations onto a suitably chosen finite dimensional space using functional
principal component analysis. The asymptotic behavior of our testing procedure
is established. A simulation study shows that the testing procedure has good
size and power with finite sample sizes. We then apply our test to a data set
provided by Tecator, which consists of near-infrared absorbance spectra and fat
content of meat.Comment: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.3150/12-BEJ446 the Bernoulli
(http://isi.cbs.nl/bernoulli/) by the International Statistical
Institute/Bernoulli Society (http://isi.cbs.nl/BS/bshome.htm
Detecting changes in functional linear models
We observe two sequences of curve which are connected via an integral
operator. Our model includes linear models as well as autoregressive models in
Hilbert spaces. We wish to test the null hypothesis that the operator did not
change during the observation period. Our method is based on projecting the
observations onto a suitably chosen finite dimensional space. The testing
procedure is based on functionals of the weighted residuals of the projections.
Since the quadratic form is based on estimating the long-term covariance matrix
of the residuals, we also provide some results on Bartlett-type estimators
Doctor of Philosophy
dissertationThis dissertation is concerned with functional data analysis. Functional data consists of a collection of curves or functions defi ned on an interval. These curves can be obtained by splitting a continuous time record such as temperature into daily or annual curves. Functional data is also obtained when an experimenter records a curve of data from each subject in a sample, e.g., a growth trajectory of an animal or plant. Several examples of diff erent models for functional data are given. We use the method of principle component analysis to obtain the necessary regularization in each model. Functional principal component analysis is summarized as a natural extension of the traditional vector principal component analysis. The first functional model is concerned with inference based on the mean function of a functional time series. We develop and asymptotically justify a testing procedure for the equality of means in two functional samples exhibiting temporal dependence. As a second example, we consider a quadratic functional regression model in which a scalar response depends on a functional predictor. We develop a test of the significance of the nonlinear term in the model. The asymptotic behavior of our testing procedure is established. In the third model, we observe two sequences of curves which are connected via an integral operator. This model includes linear models as well as autoregressive models in Hilbert spaces. We develop a procedure to test the stability of the model. In the fourth model, we propose a functional version of the popular ARCH model. We establish conditions for the existence of a strictly stationary solution, derive weak dependence and moment conditions, show consistency of the estimators, and perform an empirical study demonstrating how our model matches with real data
Improving outcomes from pediatric cardiac arrest - the ICU-RESUScitation project::study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
Severe Acute Kidney Injury is Associated with Increased Risk of Death and New Morbidity After Pediatric Septic Shock
Objectives: Acute kidney injury is common in critically ill children; however, the frequency of septic shock-associated acute kidney injury and impact on functional status are unknown. We evaluated functional outcomes of children with septic shock-associated acute kidney injury.
Design: Secondary analysis of patients with septic shock from the prospective Life after Pediatric Sepsis Evaluation study. We defined acute kidney injury using Kidney Disease Improving Global Outcomes criteria, comparing patients with absent/Stage 1 acute kidney injury to those with Stage 2/3 acute kidney injury (severe acute kidney injury). Our primary outcome was a composite of mortality or new functional morbidity at day 28 of hospitalization or discharge. We also assessed poor long-term outcome, defined as mortality or a persistent, serious deterioration in health-related quality of life at 3 months.
Setting: Twelve academic PICUs in the United States.
Patients: Critically ill children, 1 month to 18 years, with community-acquired septic shock requiring vasoactive-inotropic support.
Interventions: None.
Measurements and main results: More than 50% of patients (176/348) developed severe acute kidney injury; of those, 21.6% (38/176) required renal replacement therapy. Twice as many patients with severe acute kidney injury died or developed new substantive functional morbidity (38.6 vs 16.3%; p < 0.001). After adjustment for age, malignancy, and initial illness severity, severe acute kidney injury was independently associated with mortality or new substantive morbidity (adjusted odds ratio, 2.78; 95% CI, 1.63-4.81; p < 0.001). Children with severe acute kidney injury had poorer health-related quality of life at 3 months (adjusted effect size 2.46; 95% CI, 1.44-4.20; p = 0.002). Children with severe acute kidney injury required longer duration of mechanical ventilation (11.0 vs 7.0 d; p < 0.001) and PICU stay (11.7 vs 7.1 d; p < 0.001).
Conclusions: Among children with septic shock, severe acute kidney injury was independently associated with increased risk of death or new substantive functional morbidity. Survivors of sepsis with severe acute kidney injury were more likely to have persistent, serious health-related quality of life deterioration at 3 months
Measurement of (anti)deuteron and (anti)proton production in DIS at HERA
The first observation of (anti)deuterons in deep inelastic scattering at HERA
has been made with the ZEUS detector at a centre-of-mass energy of 300--318 GeV
using an integrated luminosity of 120 pb-1. The measurement was performed in
the central rapidity region for transverse momentum per unit of mass in the
range 0.3<p_T/M<0.7. The particle rates have been extracted and interpreted in
terms of the coalescence model. The (anti)deuteron production yield is smaller
than the (anti)proton yield by approximately three orders of magnitude,
consistent with the world measurements.Comment: 26 pages, 9 figures, 5 tables, submitted to Nucl. Phys.
High-E_T dijet photoproduction at HERA
The cross section for high-E_T dijet production in photoproduction has been
measured with the ZEUS detector at HERA using an integrated luminosity of 81.8
pb-1. The events were required to have a virtuality of the incoming photon,
Q^2, of less than 1 GeV^2 and a photon-proton centre-of-mass energy in the
range 142 < W < 293 GeV. Events were selected if at least two jets satisfied
the transverse-energy requirements of E_T(jet1) > 20 GeV and E_T(jet2) > 15 GeV
and pseudorapidity requirements of -1 < eta(jet1,2) < 3, with at least one of
the jets satisfying -1 < eta(jet) < 2.5. The measurements show sensitivity to
the parton distributions in the photon and proton and effects beyond
next-to-leading order in QCD. Hence these data can be used to constrain further
the parton densities in the proton and photon.Comment: 36 pages, 13 figures, 20 tables, including minor revisions from
referees. Accepted by Phys. Rev.
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