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Rigorous stochastic bounds for the error in large covariance matrices

✍ Scribed by Albrecht Böttcher; David Wenzel


Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2008
Tongue
English
Weight
273 KB
Volume
31
Category
Article
ISSN
0170-4214

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Abstract

This paper is motivated by recent studies of Huang et al. on distributed PCA and network anomaly detection and contains a rigorous derivation of bounds for the expected value and the variance of the spectral norm of the error in large covariance matrices. This derivation is based on a deep result by Yin et al. (Probab. Theor. Relat. Fields 1988; 78:509–521), which gives the asymptotics of the maximal eigenvalue of a random matrix as the matrix dimension goes to infinity. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.