Shrinkage estimators for large covariance matrices in multivariate real and complex normal distributions under an invariant quadratic loss |
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Authors: | Yoshihiko Konno |
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Affiliation: | aFaculty of Sciences, Japan Women’s University, Japan |
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Abstract: | The problem of estimating large covariance matrices of multivariate real normal and complex normal distributions is considered when the dimension of the variables is larger than the number of samples. The Stein–Haff identities and calculus on eigenstructure for singular Wishart matrices are developed for real and complex cases, respectively. By using these techniques, the unbiased risk estimates for certain classes of estimators for the population covariance matrices under invariant quadratic loss functions are obtained for real and complex cases, respectively. Based on the unbiased risk estimates, shrinkage estimators which are counterparts of the estimators due to Haff [L.R. Haff, Empirical Bayes estimation of the multivariate normal covariance matrix, Ann. Statist. 8 (1980) 586–697] are shown to improve upon the best scalar multiple of the empirical covariance matrix under the invariant quadratic loss functions for both real and complex multivariate normal distributions in the situation where the dimension of the variables is larger than the number of samples. |
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Keywords: | Unbiased estimate of risk Integration by parts formula Singular Wishart distributions Stein– Haff identity Calculus on eigenstructures |
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