Functional data analysis (FDA) is the branch of statistics that treats individual observations as continuous functions, curves or surfaces rather than as finite-dimensional vectors. Central to FDA are ...

Functional data analysis (FDA) encompasses a suite of statistical methods designed to handle data observed over a continuum such as time, space or wavelength, where each observation is naturally ...

Functional analysis has a long history in psychology. Originally borrowed from mathematics (Ponte, 1992), it is the central concept in behavior analysis, the perspective on psychology created by B. F.