Functional analysis has a long history in psychology. Originally borrowed from mathematics (Ponte, 1992), it is the central concept in behavior analysis, the perspective on psychology created by B. F.

Functional Data Analysis (FDA) is an increasingly central statistical framework that extends conventional data analysis to observations recorded as functions, curves or shapes. This approach ...

The U.S. Social Security Administration has requested that the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine conduct a study to (1) provide an overview of ways to collect information about ...