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Area of Science:

  • Biostatistics
  • Functional Data Analysis
  • Biomedical Statistics

Background:

  • Functional data analysis is crucial in biomedical studies for understanding relationships between complex predictors and outcomes.
  • Functional linear models (FLM) are common, but hypothesis testing for functional associations remains challenging.
  • Current methods using principal component analysis (PCA) for dimension reduction show variable power dependent on PC selection.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the power performance of existing Wald-type tests for functional association in FLM.
  • To propose a novel method for selecting principal components to enhance hypothesis testing robustness and power.
  • To apply the new method to real-world neuroimaging data.

Main Methods:

  • Investigated the power of Wald-type tests with varying principal component (PC) thresholds.
  • Developed a new method for ordering and selecting PCs based on response association and eigenfunction variation.
  • Established theoretical properties and assessed finite sample performance via simulations.

Main Results:

  • The power of existing tests is sensitive to the chosen PC threshold.
  • The proposed method demonstrates increased robustness to threshold selection.
  • Simulations indicate the new test is as powerful, and often more powerful, than existing approaches.

Conclusions:

  • The novel principal component selection method offers a more reliable approach to hypothesis testing in functional linear models.
  • This method addresses limitations of existing techniques, particularly regarding threshold sensitivity.
  • The approach is validated through simulations and application to diffusion tensor imaging data.