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We develop tests for high-dimensional covariance matrices under a generalized elliptical model. Our tests are based on a central limit theorem (CLT) for linear spectral statistics of the sample covariance matrix based on self-normalized…

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In this paper, we consider partial sums of martingale differences weighted by random variables drawn uniformly on the sphere, and globally independent of the martingale differences. Combining Lindeberg's method and a series of arguments due…

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We study the covariance in the angular power spectrum estimates of CMB fluctuations when the primordial fluctuations are non-Gaussian. The non-Gaussian covariance comes from a nonzero connected four-point correlation function -- or the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-07 Saroj Adhikari , Dragan Huterer

We present a proposal to deal with the non-normality issue in the context of regression models with measurement errors when both the response and the explanatory variable are observed with error. We extend the normal model by jointly…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-07-28 C. R. B. Cabral , N. L. de Souza , J. Leão

The limiting distribution of eigenvalues of N x N random matrices has many applications. One of the most studied ensembles are real symmetric matrices with independent entries iidrv; the limiting rescaled spectral measure (LRSM)…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-12-27 Olivia Beckwith , Victor Luo , Steven J. Miller , Karen Shen , Nicholas Triantafillou

Spectral estimation is a fundamental problem for time series analysis, which is widely applied in economics, speech analysis, seismology, and control systems. The asymptotic convergence theory for classical, non-parametric estimators, is…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-03-13 Yuping Zheng , Andrew Lamperski

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

We prove a central limit theorem (CLT) for the Frechet mean of independent and identically distributed observations in a compact Riemannian manifold assuming that the population Frechet mean is unique. Previous general CLT results in this…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-11-01 Thomas Hotz , Huiling Le , Andrew T. A. Wood

Using operator methods, we generally present the level densities for kinds of random matrix unitary ensembles in weak sense. As a corollary, the limit spectral distributions of random matrices from Gaussian, Laguerre and Jacobi unitary…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Zhengdong Wang , Kuihua Yan

This paper is devoted to the Gaussian fluctuations and deviations of the traces of tridiagonal random matrix. Under quite general assumptions, we prove that the traces are approximately normal distributed. Multi-dimensional central limit…

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This paper studies the asymptotic spectral properties of a renormalized sample correlation matrix, including the limiting spectral distribution, the properties of largest eigenvalues, and the central limit theorem for linear spectral…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-05-14 Qianqian Jiang , Junpeng Zhu , Zeng Li

This paper deals with subspace estimation in the small sample size regime, where the number of samples is comparable in magnitude with the observation dimension. The traditional estimators, mostly based on the sample correlation matrix, are…

Methodology · Statistics 2015-06-19 Pascal Vallet , Xavier Mestre , Philippe Loubaton

Let $\mathbf{X}_n=(x_{ij})$ be a $k \times n$ data matrix with complex-valued, independent and standardized entries satisfying a Lindeberg-type moment condition. We consider simultaneously $R$ sample covariance matrices…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-01-23 Weiming Li , Zeng Li , Jianfeng Yao

We develop a central limit theorem (CLT) for a non-parametric estimator of the transition matrices in controlled Markov chains (CMCs) with finite state-action spaces. Our results establish precise conditions on the logging policy under…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-03-26 Ziwei Su , Imon Banerjee , Diego Klabjan

This paper investigates the central limit theorem for linear spectral statistics of high dimensional sample covariance matrices of the form $\mathbf{B}_n=n^{-1}\sum_{j=1}^{n}\mathbf{Q}\mathbf{x}_j\mathbf{x}_j^{*}\mathbf{Q}^{*}$ where…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-08-15 Shurong Zheng , Zhidong Bai , Jianfeng Yao , Hongtu Zhu

Spectra observed with the Ultraviolet and Visual Echelle Spectrograph (UVES) on the European Southern Observatory's VLT exhibit long-range wavelength distortions. These distortions impose a systematic error on high-precision measurements of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-06 Vincent Dumont , John K. Webb

Signal amplitude estimation and detection from unlabeled quantized binary samples are studied, assuming that the order of the time indexes is completely unknown. First, maximum likelihood (ML) estimators are utilized to estimate both the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-08-15 Guanyu Wang , Jiang Zhu , Rick S. Blum , Peter Willett , Stefano Marano , Vincenzo Matta , Paolo Braca

We continue our work [arXiv:2403.07628] on asymptotic expansions at the soft edge for the classical $n$-dimensional Gaussian and Laguerre random matrix ensembles. By revisiting the construction of the associated skew-orthogonal polynomials…

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We present a method to measure the growth of structure and the background geometry of the Universe -- with no a priori assumption about the underlying cosmological model. Using Canada-France-Hawaii Lensing Survey (CFHTLenS) shear data we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-12 Peter L. Taylor , Thomas D. Kitching , Jason D. McEwen

For a large $n\times m$ Gaussian matrix, we compute the joint statistics, including large deviation tails, of generalized and total variance - the scaled log-determinant $H$ and trace $T$ of the corresponding $n\times n$ covariance matrix.…

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