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ArticleJournal of econometrics2019

Robust Covariance Estimation for Approximate Factor Models.

Jianqing Fan, Weichen Wang, Yiqiao Zhong

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Article in Journal of econometrics, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Understanding Implicit Regularization in Over-Parameterized Single Index Model.Journal of the American Statistical Association · 2023
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  3. Cross-Validated Loss-Based Covariance Matrix Estimator Selection in High Dimensions.Journal of computational and graphical statistics : a joint publication of American Statistical Association, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, Interface Foundation of North America · 2023
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  6. NOISY MATRIX COMPLETION: UNDERSTANDING STATISTICAL GUARANTEES FOR CONVEX RELAXATION VIA NONCONVEX OPTIMIZATION.SIAM journal on optimization : a publication of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics · 2020
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Jianqing FanDepartment of Operations Research and Financial Engineering, Sherrerd Hall, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA.
Weichen WangDepartment of Operations Research and Financial Engineering, Sherrerd Hall, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA.
Yiqiao ZhongDepartment of Operations Research and Financial Engineering, Sherrerd Hall, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA.

Funding

Statistical Methods for Ultrahigh-dimensional Biomedical DataR01GM072611 · NIGMS · PRINCETON UNIVERSITY · PI CATTANEO, MATIAS DAMIAN · 2006 to 2021
$4.2M
Quantitative Methods for Genome-wide Analysis of Macrophage Activation by ESCsR01GM100474 · NIGMS · PRINCETON UNIVERSITY · PI FAN, JIANQING · 2011 to 2014
$1.5M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM072611NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM100474
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In this paper, we study robust covariance estimation under the approximate factor model with observed factors. We propose a novel framework to first estimate the initial joint covariance matrix of the observed data and the factors, and then use it to recover the covariance matrix of the observed data. We prove that once the initial matrix estimator is good enough to maintain the element-wise optimal rate, the whole procedure will generate an estimated covariance with desired properties. For data with only bounded fourth moment, we propose to use adaptive Huber loss minimization to give the initial joint covariance estimation. This approach is applicable to a much wider class of distributions, beyond sub-Gaussian and elliptical distributions. We also present an asymptotic result for adaptive Huber's M-estimator with a diverging parameter. The conclusions are demonstrated by extensive simulations and real data analysis.

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Approximate factor modelM-estimatorRobust covariance matrix

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