Covariance regularization by thresholding

Details Covariance regularization by thresholding Covariance regularization by thresholding

2009-01-20

arxiv.org/abs/0901.3079v1

Annals of Statistics 2008, Vol. 36, No. 6, 2577-2604

Mathematics

Statistics Theory

Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/08-AOS600 the Annals of Statistics (http://www.imstat.org/aos/) by the Institute of

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10.1214/08-AOS600

This paper considers regularizing a covariance matrix of $p$ variables estimated from $n$ observations, by hard thresholding. We show that the thresholded estimate is consistent in the operator norm as long as the true covariance matrix is sparse in a suitable sense, the variables are Gaussian or sub-Gaussian, and $(\log p)/n\to0$, and obtain explicit rates. The results are uniform over families of covariance matrices which satisfy a fairly natural notion of sparsity. We discuss an intuitive resampling scheme for threshold selection and prove a general cross-validation result that justifies this approach. We also compare thresholding to other covariance estimators in simulations and on an example from climate data.

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