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arXiv 2006.00426math.STstat.APstat.MEstat.MLstat.TH
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高维协方差阵的Fisher联合概率检验

Fisher's combined probability test for high-dimensional covariance matrices

Xiufan Yu, Danning Li, Lingzhou Xue

摘要:

在高维数据的统计分析中,检验大的协方差阵是非常重要的。在过去的十年中,文献中研究了三种类型的检验统计量:二次型统计量、最大型统计量及其加权组合。众所周知,二次型统计量将遭受低功率对稀疏的选择和最大形式的统计量将遭受低功率对密集的选择。在适当选择权值的情况下,引入加权组合方法来提高二次型统计量或最大型统计量的功效。在本文中,我们提供了一个新的视角,充分利用二次型统计量和最大型统计量的测试高维协方差阵的潜力。我们提出了一种基于Fisher方法的尺度不变功率增强检验,将二次型统计量和最大型统计量的p值结合起来。在仔细研究了二次型统计量和最大型统计量的渐近联合分布后,我们证明了所提出的组合方法保持了正确的渐近大小,并提高了对更一般的选择的能力。此外,我们证明了有限样本的性能在模拟研究和实际应用。

英文摘要:

Testing large covariance matrices is of fundamental importance in statistical analysis with high-dimensional data. In the past decade, three types of test statistics have been studied in the literature: quadratic form statistics, maximum form statistics, and their weighted combination. It is known that quadratic form statistics would suffer from low power against sparse alternatives and maximum form statistics would suffer from low power against dense alternatives. The weighted combination methods were introduced to enhance the power of quadratic form statistics or maximum form statistics when the weights are appropriately chosen. In this paper, we provide a new perspective to exploit the full potential of quadratic form statistics and maximum form statistics for testing high-dimensional covariance matrices. We propose a scale-invariant power enhancement test based on Fisher's method to combine the p-values of quadratic form statistics and maximum form statistics. After carefully studying the asymptotic joint distribution of quadratic form statistics and maximum form statistics, we prove that the proposed combination method retains the correct asymptotic size and boosts the power against more general alternatives. Moreover, we demonstrate the finite-sample performance in simulation studies and a real application.

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