Sparse and smooth functional data clustering

Fabio Centofanti (), Antonio Lepore () and Biagio Palumbo ()
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Fabio Centofanti: University of Naples Federico II
Antonio Lepore: University of Naples Federico II
Biagio Palumbo: University of Naples Federico II

Statistical Papers, 2024, vol. 65, issue 2, No 11, 795-825

Abstract: Abstract A new model-based procedure is developed for sparse clustering of functional data that aims to classify a sample of curves into homogeneous groups while jointly detecting the most informative portions of the domain. The proposed method is referred to as sparse and smooth functional clustering (SaS-Funclust) and relies on a general functional Gaussian mixture model whose parameters are estimated by maximizing a log-likelihood function penalized with a functional adaptive pairwise fusion penalty and a roughness penalty. The former allows identifying the noninformative portion of the domain by shrinking the means of separated clusters to some common values, whereas the latter improves the interpretability by imposing some degree of smoothing to the estimated cluster means. The model is estimated via an expectation-conditional maximization algorithm paired with a cross-validation procedure. Through a Monte Carlo simulation study, the SaS-Funclust method is shown to outperform other methods that already appeared in the literature, both in terms of clustering performance and interpretability. Finally, three real-data examples are presented to demonstrate the favourable performance of the proposed method. The SaS-Funclust method is implemented in the R package sasfunclust, available on CRAN.

Keywords: Functional data analysis; Functional clustering; Model-based clustering; Penalized likelihood; Sparse clustering (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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