Supervised Principal Component Regression for Functional Responses with High Dimensional Predictors

We propose a supervised principal component regression method for relating functional responses with high dimensional predictors. Unlike the conventional principal component analysis, the proposed method builds on a newly defined expected integrated residual sum of squares, which directly makes use of the association between the functional response and the predictors. Minimizing the integrated residual sum of squares gives the supervised principal components, which is equivalent to solving a sequence of nonconvex generalized Rayleigh quotient optimization problems. We reformulate the nonconvex optimization problems into a simultaneous linear regression with a sparse penalty to deal with high dimensional predictors. Theoretically, we show that the reformulated regression problem can recover the same supervised principal subspace under suitable conditions. Statistically, we establish non-asymptotic error bounds for the proposed estimators. We demonstrate the advantages of the proposed method through both numerical experiments and an application to the Human Connectome Project fMRI data.