Reexamining Spatiotemporal Disparities of Financial Development in China Based on Functional Data Analysis

Essentially, financial development is a continuous and time-varying process. This paper explicitly accounts for this by introducing functional data analysis to convert discrete observations into a smooth curve in order to represent the continuous process of financial development at the regional leve...

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Main Authors: Deqing Wang, Tianzhi Ye, Sihua Tian, Xu Wang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2021-01-01
Series:Mathematical Problems in Engineering
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2021/5539035