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Chi-square approximation for the distribution of individual eigenvalues of a singular Wishart matrix

Statistics Theory 2023-06-09 v1 Statistics Theory

Abstract

This paper discusses the approximate distributions of eigenvalues of a singular Wishart matrix. We give the approximate joint density of eigenvalues by Laplace approximation for the hyper-geometric functions of matrix arguments. Furthermore, we show that the distribution of each eigenvalue can be approximated by the chi-square distribution with varying degrees of freedom when the population eigenvalues are infinitely dispersed. The derived result is applied to testing the equality of eigenvalues in two populations

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@article{arxiv.2306.05160,
  title  = {Chi-square approximation for the distribution of individual eigenvalues of a singular Wishart matrix},
  author = {Koki Shimizu and Hiroki Hashiguchi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2306.05160},
  year   = {2023}
}