Multimodal Bayesian registration of noisy functions using Hamiltonian Monte Carlo

J. Derek Tucker, Lyndsay Shand and Kenny Chowdhary

Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, 2021, vol. 163, issue C

Abstract: Functional data registration is a necessary processing step for many applications. The observed data can be inherently noisy, often due to measurement error or natural process uncertainty; which most functional alignment methods cannot handle. A pair of functions can also have multiple optimal alignment solutions, which is not addressed in current literature. In this paper, a flexible Bayesian approach to functional alignment is presented, which appropriately accounts for noise in the data without any pre-smoothing required. Additionally, by running parallel MCMC chains, the method can account for multiple optimal alignments via the multi-modal posterior distribution of the warping functions. To most efficiently sample the warping functions, the approach relies on a modification of the standard Hamiltonian Monte Carlo to be well-defined on the infinite-dimensional Hilbert space. This flexible Bayesian alignment method is applied to both simulated data and real data sets to show its efficiency in handling noisy functions and successfully accounting for multiple optimal alignments in the posterior; characterizing the uncertainty surrounding the warping functions.

Keywords: Amplitude variability; Bayesian model; Function alignment; Functional data analysis; Phase variability (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1016/j.csda.2021.107298

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