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On the eigenvalues of the spatial sign covariance matrix in more than two dimensions

Computation 2016-03-21 v2 Statistics Theory Statistics Theory

Abstract

We gather several results on the eigenvalues of the spatial sign covariance matrix of an elliptical distribution. It is shown that the eigenvalues are a one-to-one function of the eigenvalues of the shape matrix and that they are closer together than the latter. We further provide a one-dimensional integral representation of the eigenvalues, which facilitates their numerical computation.

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@article{arxiv.1512.02863,
  title  = {On the eigenvalues of the spatial sign covariance matrix in more than two dimensions},
  author = {Alexander Dürre and David E. Tyler and Daniel Vogel},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1512.02863},
  year   = {2016}
}