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ArticleBiometrika2018

Robust estimation of high-dimensional covariance and precision matrices.

Marco Avella-Medina, Heather S Battey, Jianqing Fan, Quefeng Li

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Article in Biometrika, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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13 citing papers in PubMed.

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  7. Selective inference forJournal of machine learning research : JMLR · 2023
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  9. Robust Covariance Matrix Estimation for High-Dimensional Compositional Data with Application to Sales Data Analysis.Journal of business & economic statistics : a publication of the American Statistical Association · 2023
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  11. Covariance estimation via fiducial inference.Statistical theory and related fields · 2021
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4 authors.

Marco Avella-MedinaSloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 30 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, U.S.A.
Heather S BatteyDepartment of Mathematics, Imperial College London, 545 Huxley Building, South Kensington Campus, London SW7 2AZ, U.K.
Jianqing FanDepartment of Operations Research and Financial Engineering, Princeton University, 205 Sherred Hall, Princeton, New Jersey 08540, U.S.A.
Quefeng LiDepartment of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 3105D McGavran-Greenberg Hall, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599, U.S.A.

Funding

Statistical Methods for Ultrahigh-dimensional Biomedical DataR01GM072611 · NIGMS · PRINCETON UNIVERSITY · PI CATTANEO, MATIAS DAMIAN · 2006 to 2021
$4.2M
Semiparametric Regression Analysis of Censored DataR01GM047845 · NIGMS · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI LIN, DANYU · 1997 to 2018
$2.9M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM047845NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM072611
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

High-dimensional data are often most plausibly generated from distributions with complex structure and leptokurtosis in some or all components. Covariance and precision matrices provide a useful summary of such structure, yet the performance of popular matrix estimators typically hinges upon a sub-Gaussianity assumption. This paper presents robust matrix estimators whose performance is guaranteed for a much richer class of distributions. The proposed estimators, under a bounded fourth moment assumption, achieve the same minimax convergence rates as do existing methods under a sub-Gaussianity assumption. Consistency of the proposed estimators is also established under the weak assumption of bounded 2 +

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