Martos Gabriel, Hernández Nicolás, Muñoz Alberto, Moguerza Javier M
Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires and CONICET, Buenos Aires C1428EGA, Argentina.
Department of Statistics, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, 28903 Getafe, Spain.
Entropy (Basel). 2018 Jan 11;20(1):33. doi: 10.3390/e20010033.
We propose a definition of entropy for stochastic processes. We provide a reproducing kernel Hilbert space model to estimate entropy from a random sample of realizations of a stochastic process, namely functional data, and introduce two approaches to estimate minimum entropy sets. These sets are relevant to detect anomalous or outlier functional data. A numerical experiment illustrates the performance of the proposed method; in addition, we conduct an analysis of mortality rate curves as an interesting application in a real-data context to explore functional anomaly detection.