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Covariance matrix estimation is a fundamental statistical task in many applications, but the sample covariance matrix is sub-optimal when the sample size is comparable to or less than the number of features. Such high-dimensional settings…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-06-06 Huiqin Xin , Sihai Dave Zhao

We explore the possibility of entanglement detection in continuous variable systems by entanglement witnesses based on covariance matrices, constructible from random homodyne measurements. We propose new linear constraints characterizing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-20 Tatiana Mihaescu , Hermann Kampermann , Giulio Gianfelici , Aurelian Isar , Dagmar Bruss

Eigenspaces of covariance matrices play an important role in statistical machine learning, arising in variety of modern algorithms. Quantitatively, it is convenient to describe the eigenspaces in terms of spectral projectors. This work…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-02-25 Igor Silin , Jianqing Fan

In this paper we consider testing the equality of probability vectors of two independent multinomial distributions in high dimension. The classical chi-square test may have some drawbacks in this case since many of cell counts may be zero…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2017-11-16 Amanda Plunkett , Junyong Park

In high-dimensional data analysis, regularization methods pursuing sparsity and/or low rank have received a lot of attention recently. To provide a proper amount of shrinkage, it is typical to use a grid search and a model comparison…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-01-01 Yiyuan She , Hoang Tran

This paper proposes procedures for testing the equality hypothesis and the proportionality hypothesis involving a large number of $q$ covariance matrices of dimension $p\times p$. Under a limiting scheme where $p$, $q$ and the sample sizes…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-09-11 Tianxing Mei , Chen Wang , Jianfeng Yao

The problem of testing changes in covariance has received increasing attention in recent years, especially in the context of high-dimensional testing. A number of approaches have been proposed, all limited to the two-sample problem and…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-09-06 Yi-Hui Zhou

We propose a two-sample test for large-dimensional covariance matrices in generalized elliptical models. The test statistic is based on a U-statistic estimator of the squared Frobenius norm of the difference between the two population…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-07-04 Nina Dörnemann

Based on two independent samples X_1,...,X_m and X_{m+1},...,X_n drawn from multivariate distributions with unknown Lebesgue densities p and q respectively, we propose an exact multiple test in order to identify simultaneously regions of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2009-08-12 Angelika Rohde

Accurately specifying covariance structures is critical for valid inference in longitudinal and functional data analysis, particularly when data are sparsely observed. In this study, we develop a global goodness-of-fit test to assess…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-03-31 Dhrubajyoti Ghosh , Zhuolin Song , Luo Xiao , Sheng Luo

Many data-science applications involve detecting a shared signal between two high-dimensional variables. Using random matrix theory methods, we determine when such signal can be detected and reconstructed from sample correlations, despite…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-04-07 Arabind Swain , Sean Alexander Ridout , Ilya Nemenman

In sparse principal component analysis we are given noisy observations of a low-rank matrix of dimension $n\times p$ and seek to reconstruct it under additional sparsity assumptions. In particular, we assume here each of the principal…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-04-27 Yash Deshpande , Andrea Montanari

The matrix-variate normal distribution is a popular model for high-dimensional transposable data because it decomposes the dependence structure of the random matrix into the Kronecker product of two covariance matrices: one for each of the…

Methodology · Statistics 2014-11-11 Anestis Touloumis , John Marioni , Simon Tavaré

A common problem in genetics is that of testing whether a set of highly dependent gene expressions differ between two populations, typically in a high-dimensional setting where the data dimension is larger than the sample size. Most…

Methodology · Statistics 2015-03-11 Måns Thulin

In this paper, we propose a new modified likelihood ratio test (LRT) for simultaneously testing mean vectors and covariance matrices of two-sample populations in high-dimensional settings. By employing tools from Random Matrix Theory (RMT),…

Applications · Statistics 2024-03-12 Zhenzhen Niu , Jianghao Li , Wenya Luo , Zhidong Bai

We consider the detection problem of correlations in a $p$-dimensional Gaussian vector, when we observe $n$ independent, identically distributed random vectors, for $n$ and $p$ large. We assume that the covariance matrix varies in some…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-01-27 Cristina Butucea , Rania Zgheib

We introduce a unified approach to testing a variety of rather general null hypotheses that can be formulated in terms of covariances matrices. These include as special cases, for example, testing for equal variances, equal traces, or for…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-12-23 Paavo Sattler , Arne C. Bathke , Markus Pauly

We propose a high dimensional mean test framework for shrinking random variables, where the underlying random variables shrink to zero as the sample size increases. By pooling observations across overlapping subsets of dimensions, we…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-02-11 Liujun Chen , Chen Zhou

Testing high-dimensional quantile regression coefficients is crucial, as tail quantiles often reveal more than the mean in many practical applications. Nevertheless, the sparsity pattern of the alternative hypothesis is typically unknown in…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-12-29 Ping Zhao , Zhenyu Liu , Dan Zhuang

Quantum coherence, present whenever a quantum system exists in a superposition of multiple classically distinct states, marks one of the fundamental departures from classical physics. Quantum coherence has recently been investigated…