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This paper investigates limiting spectral distribution of a high-dimensional Kendall's rank correlation matrix. The underlying population is allowed to have general dependence structure. The result no longer follows the generalized…

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Using Bernstein polynomial approximations, we prove the central limit theorem for linear spectral statistics of sample covariance matrices, indexed by a set of functions with continuous fourth order derivatives on an open interval including…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2010-11-29 Zhidong Bai , Xiaoying Wang , Wang Zhou

Bandeira et al. (2017) show that the eigenvalues of the Kendall correlation matrix of $n$ i.i.d. random vectors in $\mathbb{R}^p$ are asymptotically distributed like $1/3 + (2/3)Y_q$, where $Y_q$ has a Mar\v{c}enko-Pastur law with parameter…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-03-20 Pierre Bousseyroux , Tomas Espana , Matteo Smerlak

The multivariate Kendall-$\tau$ statistic, denoted by $K_n$, plays a significant role in robust statistical analysis. This paper establishes the limiting properties of the empirical spectral distribution (ESD) of $K_n$. We demonstrate that…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-11-25 Ruoyu Wu

It is known that the empirical spectral distribution of random matrices obtained from linear codes of increasing length converges to the well-known Marchenko-Pastur law, if the Hamming distance of the dual codes is at least 5. In this…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-02-01 Chin Hei Chan , Vahid Tarokh , Maosheng Xiong

In this paper, our objective is to present a constraining principle governing the spectral properties of the sample covariance matrix. This principle exhibits harmonious behavior across diverse limiting frameworks, eliminating the need for…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-01-03 Yanqing Yin

We discuss the limiting spectral density of real symmetric random matrices. Other than in standard random matrix theory the upper diagonal entries are not assumed to be independent, but we will fill them with the entries of a stochastic…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-12-09 Matthias Löwe , Kristina Schubert

Consider sample covariance matrices of the form $Q:=\Sigma^{1/2} X X^\top \Sigma^{1/2}$, where $X=(x_{ij})$ is an $n\times N$ random matrix whose entries are independent random variables with mean zero and variance $N^{-1}$, and $\Sigma$ is…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-06-09 Fan Yang

We study the adjacency matrix of the Linial-Meshulam complex model, which is a higher-dimensional generalization of the Erd\H{o}s-R\'enyi graph model. Recently, Knowles and Rosenthal proved that the empirical spectral distribution of the…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-08-23 Shu Kanazawa , Khanh Duy Trinh

For a class of symmetric random matrices whose entries are martingale differences adapted to an increasing filtration, we prove that under a Lindeberg-like condition, the empirical spectral distribution behaves asymptotically similarly to a…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-02-27 Florence Merlevède , Costel Peligrad , Magda Peligrad

In this paper we study the local law for eigenvalues of large random regular bipartite graphs with degree growing arbitrarily fast. We prove that the empirical spectral distribution of the adjacency matrix converges to a scaled down copy of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-10-18 Linh V. Tran

For two large matrices ${\mathbf X}$ and ${\mathbf Y}$ with Gaussian i.i.d.\ entries and dimensions $T\times N_X$ and $T\times N_Y$, respectively, we derive the probability distribution of the singular values of $\mathbf{X}^T \mathbf{Y}$ in…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-08-29 Arabind Swain , Sean Alexander Ridout , Ilya Nemenman

By studying the family of $p$-dimensional scale mixtures, this paper shows for the first time a non trivial example where the eigenvalue distribution of the corresponding sample covariance matrix {\em does not converge} to the celebrated…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-05-16 Weiming Li , Jianfeng Yao

It is known (Hofmann-Credner and Stolz (2008)) that the convergence of the mean empirical spectral distribution of a sample covariance matrix W_n = 1/n Y_n Y_n^t to the Mar\v{c}enko-Pastur law remains unaffected if the rows and columns of…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-03-21 Olga Friesen , Matthias Löwe , Michael Stolz

A new method of estimating population linear spectral statistics from high-dimensional data is introduced. When the dimension $d$ grows with the sample size $n$ such that $\frac{d}{n} \to c>0$, the proposed method is the first with proven…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Ben Deitmar

High-dimensional sample correlation matrices are a crucial class of random matrices in multivariate statistical analysis. The central limit theorem (CLT) provides a theoretical foundation for statistical inference. In this paper, assuming…

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Consider a sample of a centered random vector with unit covariance matrix. We show that under certain regularity assumptions, and up to a natural scaling, the smallest and the largest eigenvalues of the empirical covariance matrix converge,…

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In this paper we show weak convergence of the empirical eigenvalue distribution and of the weighted spectral measure of the Jacobi ensemble, when one or both parameters grow faster than the dimension $n$. In these cases the limit measure is…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-08-15 Jan Nagel

Random matrix theory, which characterizes spectral distributions of infinitely large matrices, plays a central role across diverse fields, including high-dimensional data analysis, ecology, neuroscience, and machine learning. Among its key…

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