Modern apparatuses allow us to collect samples of functional data,
mainly curves but also images. On the other hand, nonparametric
statistics produces useful tools for standard data exploration. This
book links these two fields of modern statistics by explaining how
functional data can be studied through parameter-free statistical ideas.
At the same time it shows how functional data can be studied through
parameter-free statistical ideas, and offers an original presentation of
new nonparametric statistical methods for functional data analysis.