“…This practical problem inspires us to capture the dynamic behaviour of a set of scalar predictors of interest on the functional response. Function-on-scalar regression, which characterizes the relationship between a functional response and a set of scalar predictors, is an integral part of functional data analysis (Ramsay & Silverman, 2005;Ferraty & Vieu, 2006;Cao & Ramsay, 2010;Ainsworth, Routledge & Cao, 2011;Liu, Wang & Cao, 2017;Lin et al, 2017;Guan, Lin & Cao, 2020;Jiang et al, 2020;Cai, Xue & Cao, 2021). Function-on-scalar regression has become increasingly popular in the analysis of gene expression data and imaging data (see, e.g., Wang, Chen & Li, 2007;Li, Huang & Zhu, 2017).…”