Marčenko-Pastur law for Tyler's M-estimator

DOI10.1016/J.JMVA.2016.03.010zbMATH Open1381.62109arXiv1401.3424OpenAlexW2315096753MaRDI QIDQ290712FDOQ290712

Authors: Teng Zhang, Xiuyuan Cheng, A. Singer 

Publication date: 3 June 2016

Published in: Journal of Multivariate Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: This paper studies the limiting behavior of Tyler's M-estimator for the scatter matrix, in the regime that the number of samples $n$ and their dimension $p$ both go to infinity, and $p/n$ converges to a constant $y$ with $0<y<1$. We prove that when the data samples $x_1,ldots,x_n$ are identically and independently generated from the Gaussian distribution $mathcalN(0,I)$, the operator norm of the difference between a properly scaled Tyler's M-estimator and $su{m}_{i=1}^n{x}_i{x}_i^{o}p/n$ tends to zero. As a result, the spectral distribution of Tyler's M-estimator converges weakly to the Marv{c}enko-Pastur distribution.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1401.3424

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zbMATH Keywords

covariance estimationrandom matrix theoryrobust statistics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Estimation in multivariate analysis (62H12) Random matrices (algebraic aspects) (15B52) Robustness and adaptive procedures (parametric inference) (62F35)

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