An overview of the estimation of large covariance and precision matrices

J Fan, Y Liao, H Liu - The Econometrics Journal, 2016 - academic.oup.com
The estimation of large covariance and precision matrices is fundamental in modern
multivariate analysis. However, problems arise from the statistical analysis of large panel …

Overview of object oriented data analysis

JS Marron, AM Alonso - Biometrical Journal, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Object oriented data analysis is the statistical analysis of populations of complex objects. In
the special case of functional data analysis, these data objects are curves, where a variety of …

[HTML][HTML] Asymptotics of empirical eigenstructure for high dimensional spiked covariance

W Wang, J Fan - Annals of statistics, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
We derive the asymptotic distributions of the spiked eigenvalues and eigenvectors under a
generalized and unified asymptotic regime, which takes into account the magnitude of …

[HTML][HTML] Projected principal component analysis in factor models

J Fan, Y Liao, W Wang - Annals of statistics, 2016 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
This paper introduces a Projected Principal Component Analysis (Projected-PCA), which
employees principal component analysis to the projected (smoothed) data matrix onto a …

Exponent of cross‐sectional dependence: Estimation and inference

N Bailey, G Kapetanios… - Journal of Applied …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
This paper provides a characterisation of the degree of cross‐sectional dependence in a two
dimensional array,{xit, i= 1, 2,... N; t= 1, 2,..., T} in terms of the rate at which the variance of …

[PDF][PDF] Distributions of angles in random packing on spheres

TT Cai, J Fan, T Jiang - Journal of Machine Learning Research, 2013 - jmlr.org
This paper studies the asymptotic behaviors of the pairwise angles among n randomly and
uniformly distributed unit vectors in Rp as the number of points n→∞, while the dimension p …

Limiting laws for divergent spiked eigenvalues and largest nonspiked eigenvalue of sample covariance matrices

TT Cai, X Han, G Pan - 2020 - projecteuclid.org
Supplement to “Limiting laws for divergent spiked eigenvalues and largest nonspiked
eigenvalue of sample covariance matrices”. In the Supplementary Material, we provide the …

De-biased sparse PCA: Inference for eigenstructure of large covariance matrices

J Janková, S van de Geer - IEEE Transactions on Information …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Sparse principal component analysis has become one of the most widely used techniques
for dimensionality reduction in high-dimensional datasets. While many methods are …

Sparsifying the Fisher linear discriminant by rotation

N Hao, B Dong, J Fan - Journal of the Royal Statistical Society …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Many high dimensional classification techniques have been proposed in the literature based
on sparse linear discriminant analysis. To use them efficiently, sparsity of linear classifiers is …

Asymptotics of empirical eigen-structure for ultra-high dimensional spiked covariance model

J Fan, W Wang - arXiv preprint arXiv:1502.04733, 2015 - arxiv.org
We derive the asymptotic distributions of the spiked eigenvalues and eigenvectors under a
generalized and unified asymptotic regime, which takes into account the spike magnitude of …