CALL FOR PAPERS
2nd Special Issue on FUNCTIONAL DATA ANALYSIS

Econometrics and Statistics, Part B: Statistics
http://www.elsevier.com/locate/ecosta

We are inviting submissions for the 2nd special issue of the journal
Econometrics and Statistics (Part B: Statistics) in Functional Data
Analysis. Functional data analysis is a modern and dynamic area of
Statistics with applications in a number of fields, including
high-tech engineering, environmetrics, biostatistics, geophysics,
chemometrics, econometrics, medical science. Functional data
correspond to any data evolving over a one- or multi-dimensional
domain, e.g. time, space, or frequency. In FDA problems, a statistical
unit may be a curve, a surface or any more complex mathematical
object. The main goal of functional data analysis consists in
developing methodologies to capture statistical properties from a
sample of such complex objects.

The aim of this special issue is to collect papers developing
foundational and novel methodology and theory and applications.
Papers on the following topics are particularly welcome:

- Functional regression;
- Bootstrapping functional data;
- Learning with functional data (boosting, bagging, neural networks, etc);
- Classification/discrimination of functional data;
- Testing hypothesis and model selection;
- partially observed functional data;
- manifold-valued functional data
- centrality/outlyingness for functional data
- functional data with spatial or temporal dependence. 

In order to be considered for publication the papers should have a
significant novel component in the area of functional data 
analysis.  Papers dealing, directly or indirectly, with theoretical,
computational and technical elements are particularly encouraged.
Original methodological contributions inspired in applications will
also be considered. Authors who are uncertain about the suitability of
their papers should contact the editors. All submissions must contain
original unpublished work that is not being considered for publication
elsewhere.

Submissions will be refereed according to standard procedures for
Econometrics and Statistics. Information about the journal can be
found at http://www.elsevier.com/locate/ecosta.

The deadline for submissions is 20 August 2020.  However, papers can be
submitted at any time and once they are received, they will enter the
editorial system immediately.

Papers for the special issue should be submitted using the Elsevier
Electronic Submission tool EM:
https://www.editorialmanager.com/ecosta/.
In the EM, please choose the special issue on Functional Data
Analysis.

The special issue editors:

Frederic Ferraty, Paul Sabatier University, France
Email: ferraty@math.univ-toulouse.fr

Alois Kneip, University of Bonn, Germany
Email: akneip@uni-bonn.de

Piotr Kokoszka, Colorado State University, USA.
E-mail: Piotr.Kokoszka@colostate.edu

Alex Petersen, University of California Santa Barbara, USA
Email:  petersen@pstat.ucsb.edu