“…Later, Grenander (1950) Due to the theoretical and practical developments, FPCA has been successfully applied to many practical problems, such as the analysis of cornea curvature in the human eye (Locantore et al 1999), the analysis of electronic commerce , the analysis of growth curve (Chiou & Li 2007), the analysis of income density curves (Kneip & Utikal 2001), the analysis of implied volatility surface in finance (Cont & de Fonseca 2002), the analysis of longitudinal primary biliary liver cirrhosis (Yao et al 2005b), the analysis of spectroscopy data (Yao & Müller 2010), signal discrimination (Hall et al 2001), and time-course gene expression (Yao et al 2005a). Furthermore, Hyndman & Ullah (2007) proposed a smoothed and robust FPCA, and used it to forecast age-specific mortality and fertility rates.…”