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Performance Analysis of Tyler's Covariance Estimator

Statistics Theory 2015-06-18 v4 Statistics Theory

Abstract

This paper analyzes the performance of Tyler's M-estimator of the scatter matrix in elliptical populations. We focus on the non-asymptotic setting and derive the estimation error bounds depending on the number of samples n and the dimension p. We show that under quite mild conditions the squared Frobenius norm of the error of the inverse estimator decays like p^2/n with high probability.

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@article{arxiv.1401.6926,
  title  = {Performance Analysis of Tyler's Covariance Estimator},
  author = {Ilya Soloveychik and Ami Wiesel},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1401.6926},
  year   = {2015}
}