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We study an indefinite spectral problem for a second-order self-adjoint elliptic operator in an asymptotically thin cylinder. The operator coefficients and the spectral density function are assumed to be locally periodic in the axial…

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In this paper, we study the asymptotic behavior of the extreme eigenvalues and eigenvectors of the spiked covariance matrices, in the supercritical regime. Specifically, we derive the joint distribution of the extreme eigenvalues and the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-08-31 Zhigang Bao , Xiucai Ding , Jingming Wang , Ke Wang

Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is an important tool of dimension reduction especially when the dimension (or the number of variables) is very high. Asymptotic studies where the sample size is fixed, and the dimension grows [i.e., High…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2009-11-20 Sungkyu Jung , J. S. Marron

We study the problem of computationally efficient robust estimation of the covariance/scatter matrix of elliptical distributions -- that is, affine transformations of spherically symmetric distributions -- under the strong contamination…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Gleb Novikov

In this paper, the key objects of interest are the sequential covariance matrices $\mathbf{S}_{n,t}$ and their largest eigenvalues. Here, the matrix $\mathbf{S}_{n,t}$ is computed as the empirical covariance associated with observations…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-05-01 Nina Dörnemann , Debashis Paul

One develops a fast computational methodology for principal component analysis on manifolds. Instead of estimating intrinsic principal components on an object space with a Riemannian structure, one embeds the object space in a numerical…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-10-04 Ka Chun Wong , Vic Patrangenaru , Robert L. Paige , Mihaela Pricop Jeckstadt

Principal component analysis (PCA) is a classical method for dimensionality reduction based on extracting the dominant eigenvectors of the sample covariance matrix. However, PCA is well known to behave poorly in the ``large $p$, small $n$''…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2009-08-26 Arash A. Amini , Martin J. Wainwright

We study the problem of estimating the leading eigenvectors of a high-dimensional population covariance matrix based on independent Gaussian observations. We establish lower bounds on the rates of convergence of the estimators of the…

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In this work we introduce a new measure for the dispersion of the spectral scale of a Hermitian (self-adjoint) operator acting on a separable infinite dimensional Hilbert space that we call spectral spread. Then, we obtain some…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-18 Pedro Massey , Demetrio Stojanoff , Sebastian Zarate

Let A(x) be a holomorphic family of bounded self-adjoint operators on a separable Hilbert space H and let A(x)_n be the orthogonal compressions of A(x) to the span of first n elements of an orthonormal basis of H. The problem considered…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2022-07-08 V. B. Kiran Kumar , M. N. N. Namboodiri , S. Serra-Capizzano

Principal component analysis (PCA) is a widely used dimension reduction tool in the analysis of many kind of high-dimensional data. It is used in signal processing, mechanical engineering, psychometrics, and other fields under different…

Methodology · Statistics 2014-01-15 Ngoc Mai Tran , Maria Osipenko , Wolfgang Karl Haerdle

The goal of this paper is to establish relative perturbation bounds, tailored for empirical covariance operators. Our main results are expansions for empirical eigenvalues and spectral projectors, leading to concentration inequalities and…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-03-03 Moritz Jirak , Martin Wahl

Principal component analysis (PCA) is one of the most popular dimension reduction techniques in statistics and is especially powerful when a multivariate distribution is concentrated near a lower-dimensional subspace. Multivariate extreme…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-07-15 Felix Reinbott , Anja Janßen

Principal component analysis is a multivariate statistical method frequently used in science and engineering to reduce the dimension of a problem or extract the most significant features from a dataset. In this paper, using a similar notion…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-09 Anmer Daskin

Functional principal component analysis (FPCA) has been widely used to capture major modes of variation and reduce dimensions in functional data analysis. However, standard FPCA based on the sample covariance estimator does not work well in…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-01-19 Guangxing Wang , Sisheng Liu , Fang Han , Chongzhi Di

We present a streamlined approach for generalized strong and norm convergence of self-adjoint operators in different Hilbert spaces. In particular, we establish convergence of associated (semi-)groups, (essential) spectra and spectral…

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For $d \ge 2$, let $X$ be a random vector having a Bingham distribution on $\mathcal{S}^{d-1}$, the unit sphere centered at the origin in $\R^d$, and let $\Sigma$ denote the symmetric matrix parameter of the distribution. Let $\Psi(\Sigma)$…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-11-22 Armine Bagyan , Donald Richards

We explore how the expectation values $\langle\psi |A| \psi\rangle$ of a largely arbitrary observable $A$ are distributed when normalized vectors $|\psi\rangle$ are randomly sampled from a high dimensional Hilbert space. Our analytical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-01-18 Peter Reimann , Jochen Gemmer

Principal stratification is essential for revealing causal mechanisms involving post-treatment intermediate variables, in real-world applications like surrogate marker evaluation. Principal stratification analysis with continuous…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-01-31 Yichi Zhang , Shu Yang

Factor analysis aims to describe high dimensional random vectors by means of a small number of unknown common factors. In mathematical terms, it is required to decompose the covariance matrix $\Sigma$ of the random vector as the sum of a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-08-02 Valentina Ciccone , Augusto Ferrante , Mattia Zorzi