A unified approach for testing in Hilbert spaces on incomplete data

We consider statistical testing on the basis of incomplete observations with values in a separable Hilbert space, where the dimension is possibly large or even infinite.

The general Hilbert space setting allows various data types as they arise in modern applications, in particular high dimensional and functional data.

Possible Hilbert space testing problems are goodness-of-fit, symmetry, homogeneity and independence.

We present an approach for modeling incomplete data that covers several problems in practice, e.g., ultra high dimensional random vectors with missing entries or partially observed stochastic processes.

We identify a specific structure (independent and identically distributed) in the incomplete data that enables the analysis of statistical procedures with the help of suitable mathematical results (e.g., laws of large numbers and central limit theorems).

Additionally, a general and novel concept for testing different hypotheses in this situation is suggested and sketched for the example of testing goodness-of-fit for normality.