fda (version 2.4.0)

inprod: Inner products of Functional Data Objects.

Description

Computes a matrix of inner products for each pairing of a replicate for the first argument with a replicate for the second argument. This is perhaps the most important function in the functional data library. Hardly any analysis fails to use inner products in some way, and many employ multiple inner products. While in certain cases these may be computed exactly, this is a more general function that approximates the inner product approximately when required. The inner product is defined by two derivatives or linear differential operators that are applied to the first two arguments. The range used to compute the inner product may be contained within the range over which the functions are defined. A weight functional data object may also be used to define weights for the inner product.

Usage

inprod(fdobj1, fdobj2,
       Lfdobj1=int2Lfd(0), Lfdobj2=int2Lfd(0),
       rng = range1, wtfd = 0, returnMatrix=FALSE)

Arguments

fdobj1

a functional data object or a basis object. If the object is of the basis class, it is converted to a functional data object by using the identity matrix as the coefficient matrix.

fdobj2

a functional data object or a basis object. If the object is of the basis class, it is converted to a functional data object by using the identity matrix as the coefficient matrix.

Lfdobj1

either a nonnegative integer specifying the derivative of the first argument to be used, or a linear differential operator object to be applied to the first argument.

Lfdobj2

either a nonnegative integer specifying the derivative of the second argument to be used, or a linear differential operator object to be applied to the second argument.

rng

a vector of length 2 defining a restricted range contained within the range over which the arguments are defined.

wtfd

a univariate functional data object with a single replicate defining weights to be used in computing the inner product.

returnMatrix

logical: If TRUE, a two-dimensional is returned using a special class from the Matrix package.

Value

• a matrix of inner products. The number of rows is the number of functions or basis functions in argument fd1, and the number of columns is the same thing for argument fd2.

References

Press, et, al, $Numerical Recipes$.

Details

The approximation method is Richardson extrapolation using numerical integration by the trapezoidal rule. At each iteration, the number of values at which the functions are evaluated is doubled, and a polynomial extrapolation method is used to estimate the converged integral values as well as an error tolerance. Convergence is declared when the relative error falls below EPS for all products. The extrapolation method generally saves at least one and often two iterations relative to un-extrapolated trapezoidal integration. Functional data analyses will seldom need to use inprod directly, but code developers should be aware of its pivotal role. Future work may require more sophisticated and specialized numerical integration methods. inprod computes the definite integral, but some functions such as smooth.monotone and register.fd also need to compute indefinite integrals. These use the same approximation scheme, but usually require more accuracy, and hence more iterations. When one or both arguments are basis objects, they are converted to functional data objects using identity matrices as the coefficient matrices. inprod is only called when there is no faster or exact method available. In cases where there is, it has been found that the approximation is good to about four to five significant digits, which is sufficient for most applications. Perhaps surprisingly, in the case of B-splines, the exact method is not appreciably faster, but of course is more accurate. inprod calls function eval.fd perhaps thousands of times, so high efficiency for this function and the functions that it calls is important.

See Also

eval.penalty,