fdapace

A versatile package that provides implementation of various methods of Functional Data Analysis (FDA) and Empirical Dynamics. The core of this package is Functional Principal Component Analysis (FPCA), a key technique for functional data analysis, for sparsely or densely sampled random trajectories and time courses, via the Principal Analysis by Conditional Estimation (PACE) algorithm. This core algorithm yields covariance and mean functions, eigenfunctions and principal component (scores), for both functional data and derivatives, for both dense (functional) and sparse (longitudinal) sampling designs. For sparse designs, it provides fitted continuous trajectories with confidence bands, even for subjects with very few longitudinal observations. PACE is a viable and flexible alternative to random effects modeling of longitudinal data. There is also a Matlab version (PACE) that contains some methods not available on fdapace and vice versa. Updates to fdapace were supported by grants from NIH Echo and NSF DMS-1712864 and DMS-2014626. Please cite our package if you use it (You may run the command citation("fdapace") to get the citation format and bibtex entry). References: Wang, J.L., Chiou, J., Müller, H.G. (2016) <doi:10.1146/annurev-statistics-041715-033624>; Chen, K., Zhang, X., Petersen, A., Müller, H.G. (2017) <doi:10.1007/s12561-015-9137-5>.

Last 30 days

This package has been downloaded 2,095 times in the last 30 days. Consider this 'mid-tier influencer' status—if it were a TikTok, it would get a nod from nieces and nephews. The following heatmap shows the distribution of downloads per day. Yesterday, it was downloaded 73 times.

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Last 365 days

This package has been downloaded 26,421 times in the last 365 days. The downloads are officially high enough to crash an underfunded departmental server. Quite an accomplishment! The day with the most downloads was May 01, 2024 with 417 downloads.

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