Abstract
In this paper, we show that the diagonal of a high-dimensional sample covariance matrix stemming from n independent observations of a p-dimensional time series with finite fourth moments can be approximated in spectral norm by the diagonal of the population covariance matrix. We assume that with tending to a constant which might be positive or zero. As applications, we provide an approximation of the sample correlation matrix R and derive a variety of results for its eigenvalues. We identify the limiting spectral distribution of R and construct an estimator for the population correlation matrix and its eigenvalues. Finally, the almost sure limits of the extreme eigenvalues of R in a generalized spiked correlation model are analyzed.
Acknowledgments
JH is grateful to Mark Podolskij and an anonymous referee for valuable feedback.
Citation
Johannes Heiny. "Large sample correlation matrices: a comparison theorem and its applications." Electron. J. Probab. 27 1 - 20, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1214/22-EJP817
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