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Estimation And Testing For Spatially Indexed Curves With Application To Ionospheric And Magnetic Field Trends, Oleksandr Gromenko, Piotr Kokoszka, Lie Zhu, Jan Josef Sojka

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We develop methodology for the estimation of the functional mean and the functional principal components when the functions form a spatial process. The data consist of curves X(sk;t), t∈[0, T], observed at spatial locations s1,s2, . . . ,sN. We propose several methods, and evaluate them by means of a simulation study. Next, we develop a significance test for the correlation of two such functional spatial fields. After validating the finite sample performance of this test by means of a simulation study, we apply it to determine if there is correlation between long-term trends in the so-called critical ionospheric frequency …