Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
1145240 Journal of Multivariate Analysis 2016 19 Pages PDF
Abstract

We consider the problem of estimating covariance and precision matrices, and their associated discriminant coefficients, from normal data when the rank of the covariance matrix is strictly smaller than its dimension and the available sample size. Using unbiased risk estimation, we construct novel estimators by minimizing upper bounds on the difference in risk over several classes. Our proposal estimates are empirically demonstrated to offer substantial improvement over classical approaches.

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Physical Sciences and Engineering Mathematics Numerical Analysis
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