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Sample overlap is a common issue in evidence synthesis in the field of medical research, particularly when integrating findings from observational studies utilizing existing databases such as registries. Due to the general inaccessibility…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-02-26 Zhentian Zhang , Tim Friede , Tim Mathes

In this paper, we consider testing the correlation coefficient matrix between two subsets of high-dimensional variables. We produce a test statistic by using the extended cross-data-matrix (ECDM) methodology and show the unbiasedness of…

Methodology · Statistics 2015-03-24 Kazuyoshi Yata , Makoto Aoshima

We generalize entanglement detection with covariance matrices for an arbitrary set of observables. A generalized uncertainty relation is constructed using the covariance and commutation matrices, then a criterion is established by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-06-12 Vinay Tripathi , Chandrashekar Radhakrishnan , Tim Byrnes

Estimating the eigenvalues of a population covariance matrix from a sample covariance matrix is a problem of fundamental importance in multivariate statistics; the eigenvalues of covariance matrices play a key role in many widely…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2007-06-13 Noureddine El Karoui

Detecting the components common or correlated across multiple data sets is challenging due to a large number of possible correlation structures among the components. Even more challenging is to determine the precise structure of these…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-01 Tanuj Hasija , Christian Lameiro , Timothy Marrinan , Peter J. Schreier

A well-known stochastic model for intermittent fluctuations in physical systems is investigated. The model is given by a super-position of uncorrelated exponential pulses, and the degree of pulse overlap is interpreted as an intermittency…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-01-17 Audun Theodorsen , Odd Erik Garcia

In a spiked population model, the population covariance matrix has all its eigenvalues equal to units except for a few fixed eigenvalues (spikes). Determining the number of spikes is a fundamental problem which appears in many scientific…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2011-04-18 Damien Passemier , Jian-Feng Yao

We develop a formalism to compute the statistics of the top eigenpair of weighted sparse graphs with finite mean connectivity and bounded maximal degree. Framing the problem in terms of optimisation of a quadratic form on the sphere and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-10-28 Vito Antonio Rocco Susca , Pierpaolo Vivo , Reimer Kuehn

Covariance matrix estimation concerns the problem of estimating the covariance matrix from a collection of samples, which is of extreme importance in many applications. Classical results have shown that $O(n)$ samples are sufficient to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Wei Cui , Xu Zhang , Yulong Liu

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

Multivariate time series present many challenges, especially when they are high dimensional. The paper's focus is twofold. First, we address the subject of consistently estimating the autocovariance sequence; this is a sequence of matrices…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-06-03 Carsten Jentsch , Dimitris N. Politis

We consider the problem of estimating the principal components of a population correlation matrix from a limited number of measurement data. Using a combination of random matrix and information-theoretic tools, we show that all the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-01-20 Rémi Monasson , Dario Villamaina

In this thesis, a Bayes linear methodology for the adjustment of covariance matrices is presented and discussed. A geometric framework for quantifying uncertainties about covariance matrices is set up, and an inner-product for spaces of…

bayes-an · Physics 2016-08-31 Darren J Wilkinson

This paper is concerned with the spectral properties of matrices associated with linear filters for the estimation of the underlying trend of a time series. The interest lies in the fact that the eigenvectors can be interpreted as the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2008-12-18 Alessandra Luati , Tommaso Proietti

We consider the problem of approximating the set of eigenvalues of the covariance matrix of a multivariate distribution (equivalently, the problem of approximating the "population spectrum"), given access to samples drawn from the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-07-18 Weihao Kong , Gregory Valiant

This paper investigates global and local laws for sample covariance matrices with general growth rates of dimensions. The sample size $N$ and population dimension $M$ can have the same order in logarithm, which implies that their ratio…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-11-05 Bing-Yi Jing , Weiming Li , Jiahui Xie , Yangchun Zhang , Wang Zhou

We study, count and locate the exceptional points where eigenvalues collide for certain families of matrices $$R(s,t) = \cos(s \pi / 2)C + \sin(s \pi / 2)U(t), \quad s,t \in [0,1]$$ where $C$ is a realization of a Ginibre random matrix, or…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-06-24 Carlos Vargas

A powerful tool for the analysis of nonrandomized observational studies has been the potential outcomes model. Utilization of this framework allows analysts to estimate average treatment effects. This article considers the situation in…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-05-31 Debashis Ghosh , Efrén Cruz-Cortés

We analyze the spectral properties of correlation matrices between distinct statistical systems. Such matrices are intrinsically non symmetric, and lend themselves to extend the spectral analyses usually performed on standard Pearson…

Statistical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2012-06-29 Giacomo Livan , Luca Rebecchi

We consider the eigenvalue problem for the case where the input matrix is symmetric and its entries perturb in some given intervals. We present a characterization of some of the exact boundary points, which allows us to introduce an inner…

Robotics · Computer Science 2011-02-22 Milan Hladik , David Daney , Elias Tsigaridas