Functional data analysis is a collection of techniques in statistics for application where the data being analyzed are curves or functions (i.e., functional data). In reality, functional data are often dense sets of measurements over a period of time.

See also

• Data analysis
• Functional analysis

Further reading

• Ramsay, J. O. and Silverman, B.W. (2002) Applied functional data analysis : methods and case studies, Springer series in statistics, New York ; London : Springer, ISBN 0-387-95414-7
• Ramsay, J. O. and Silverman, B.W. (2005) Functional data analysis, 2nd ed., New York : Springer, ISBN 0-387-40080-X