On Low-Dimensional Projections of High-Dimensional Distributions

Details On Low-Dimensional Projections of High-Dimensional Distributions On Low-Dimensional Projections of High-Dimensional Distributions

2011-07-02

arxiv.org/abs/1107.0417v3

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Statistics Theory

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Let $P$ be a probability distribution on $q$-dimensional space. The so-called Diaconis-Freedman effect means that for a fixed dimension $d << q$, most $d$-dimensional projections of $P$ look like a scale mixture of spherically symmetric Gaussian distributions. The present paper provides necessary and sufficient conditions for this phenomenon in a suitable asymptotic framework with increasing dimension $q$. It turns out, that the conditions formulated by Diaconis and Freedman (1984) are not only sufficient but necessary as well. Moreover, letting $\hat{P}$ be the empirical distribution of $n$ independent random vectors with distribution $P$, we investigate the behavior of the empirical process $\sqrt{n}(\hat{P} - P)$ under random projections, conditional on $\hat{P}$.

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