Abstract
We extend the theory of principal components to random variabies X with values in a separable HILBERT space and prove optima! properties well-known for finite-dimen-sional spaces, Further we give an estimate of the variance operator D from a series of independent, observations and prove the strong consistency if the estimate for nuclear D.In the case D has single eigenvalues we find that with probability 1 the limiting properties of the sample principal components computed from such an estimate of D are those of the exact principal components.

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