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The Minimum Covariance Determinant (MCD) approach robustly estimates the location and scatter matrix using the subset of given size with lowest sample covariance determinant. Its main drawback is that it cannot be applied when the dimension…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-01-13 Kris Boudt , Peter J. Rousseeuw , Steven Vanduffel , Tim Verdonck

This work introduces the Matrix Minimum Covariance Determinant (MMCD) method, a novel robust location and covariance estimation procedure designed for data that are naturally represented in the form of a matrix. Unlike standard robust…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-03-17 Marcus Mayrhofer , Una Radojičić , Peter Filzmoser

The usual Minimum Covariance Determinant (MCD) estimator of a covariance matrix is robust against casewise outliers. These are cases (that is, rows of the data matrix) that behave differently from the majority of cases, raising suspicion…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-07-08 Jakob Raymaekers , Peter J. Rousseeuw

The Minimum Covariance Determinant (MCD) method is a widely adopted tool for robust estimation and outlier detection. In this paper, we introduce MCD model selection based on the notion of stability. Our best subset method leverages prior…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-07-02 Qiang Heng , Hui Shen , Kenneth Lange

The minimum regularized covariance determinant method (MRCD) is a robust estimator for multivariate location and scatter, which detects outliers by fitting a robust covariance matrix to the data. Its regularization ensures that the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-07-08 Joachim Schreurs , Iwein Vranckx , Mia Hubert , Johan A. K. Suykens , Peter J. Rousseeuw

The minimum covariance determinant (MCD) estimator is ubiquitous in multivariate analysis, the critical step of which is to select a subset of a given size with the lowest sample covariance determinant. The concentration step (C-step) is a…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-05-16 Maoyu Zhang , Yan Song , Wenlin Dai

Covariance matrix estimation is an important problem in multivariate data analysis, both from theoretical as well as applied points of view. Many simple and popular covariance matrix estimators are known to be severely affected by model…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-11-21 Soumya Chakraborty , Ayanendranath Basu , Abhik Ghosh

The geometric median covariation matrix is a robust multivariate indicator of dispersion which can be extended without any difficulty to functional data. We define estimators, based on recursive algorithms, that can be simply updated at…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-07-12 Hervé Cardot , Antoine Godichon-Baggioni

In this paper, we propose the Minimum Regularized Covariance Trace (MRCT) estimator, a novel method for robust covariance estimation and functional outlier detection. The MRCT estimator employs a subset-based approach that prioritizes…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-04-11 Jeremy Oguamalam , Una Radojičić , Peter Filzmoser

Robust test statistics for the two-way MANOVA based on the minimum covariance determinant (MCD) estimator are proposed as alternatives to the classical Wilks' Lambda test statistics which are well known to be very sensitive to outliers as…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-06-12 Bernhard Spangl

We consider the problem of conditional density estimation, which is a major topic of interest in the fields of statistical and machine learning. Our method, called Marginal Contrastive Discrimination, MCD, reformulates the conditional…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-01-05 Katia Meziani , Aminata Ndiaye , Benjamin Riu

We define the minimum covariance determinant functionals for multivariate location and scatter through trimming functions and establish their existence at any multivariate distribution. We provide a precise characterization including a…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2012-05-10 Eric A. Cator , Hendrik P. Lopuhaä

Interval-valued data are one of the most common symbolic data types, which enables the preservation of the underlying variability of the data. The interval mean and covariance matrix can be estimated using the barycenter approach based on…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-04-30 Catarina P. Loureiro , M. Rosário Oliveira , Paula Brito , Lina Oliveira

A method for channel estimation in wideband massive Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) systems using covariance identification is developed. The method is useful for Frequency-Division Duplex (FDD) at either sub-6GHz or millimeter wave…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-30 José González-Coma , Pedro Suárez-Casal , Paula M. Castro , Luis Castedo , Michael Joham

Maronna's and Tyler's $M$-estimators are among the most widely used robust estimators for scatter matrices. However, when the dimension of observations is relatively high, their performance can substantially deteriorate in certain…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-02-18 Soma Nikai , Yuichi Goto , Koji Tsukuda

Estimation of large sparse covariance matrices is of great importance for statistical analysis, especially in the high-dimensional settings. The traditional approach such as the sample covariance matrix performs poorly due to the high…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-08-21 Xiaoning Kang , Xinwei Deng

Multivariate location and scatter matrix estimation is a cornerstone in multivariate data analysis. We consider this problem when the data may contain independent cellwise and casewise outliers. Flat data sets with a large number of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2014-06-24 Claudio Agostinelli , Andy Leung , Victor J. Yohai , Ruben H. Zamar

We provide a unified approach to MM-estimation with auxiliary scale for balanced linear models with structured covariance matrices. This approach leads to estimators that are highly robust against outliers and highly efficient for normal…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-11-10 Hendrik Paul Lopuhaa

We deal with the equivariant estimation of scatter and location for p-dimensional data, giving emphasis to scatter. It it important that the estimators possess both a high efficiency for normal data and a high resistance to outliers, that…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-08-17 Ricardo A. Maronna , Victor J. Yohai

Covariance matrix estimation is one of the most important problems in statistics. To accommodate the complexity of modern datasets, it is desired to have estimation procedures that not only can incorporate the structural assumptions of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2017-06-13 Mengjie Chen , Chao Gao , Zhao Ren
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