High-dimensional covariance matrix estimation

Lam, Clifford ORCID: 0000-0001-8972-9129 (2020) High-dimensional covariance matrix estimation. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Computational Statistics, 12 (2). ISSN 1939-5108

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Covariance matrix estimation plays an important role in statistical analysis in many fields, including (but not limited to) portfolio allocation and risk management in finance, graphical modeling, and clustering for genes discovery in bioinformatics, Kalman filtering and factor analysis in economics. In this paper, we give a selective review of covariance and precision matrix estimation when the matrix dimension can be diverging with, or even larger than the sample size. Two broad categories of regularization methods are presented. The first category exploits an assumed structure of the covariance or precision matrix for consistent estimation. The second category shrinks the eigenvalues of a sample covariance matrix, knowing from random matrix theory that such eigenvalues are biased from the population counterparts when the matrix dimension grows at the same rate as the sample size. This article is categorized under: Statistical and Graphical Methods of Data Analysis > Analysis of High Dimensional Data Statistical and Graphical Methods of Data Analysis > Multivariate Analysis Statistical and Graphical Methods of Data Analysis > Nonparametric Methods.

Item Type:	Article
Official URL:	https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/19390068
Additional Information:	© 2019 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
Divisions:	Statistics
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HA Statistics
Date Deposited:	19 Sep 2019 11:30
Last Modified:	12 Dec 2024 01:53
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/101667

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