An improved banded estimation for large covariance matrix

Wenyu Yang and Xiaoning Kang

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods, 2023, vol. 52, issue 1, 141-155

Abstract: The modified Cholesky decomposition (MCD) is a powerful and efficient tool for the large covariance matrix estimation, which guarantees the positive definite property of the estimated matrix. However, when implementing the MCD, it requires a pre-knowledge of the variable ordering, which is often unknown before analysis or does not exist for some real data. In this work, we propose a positive definite Cholesky-based estimate for the large banded covariance matrix by recovering the variable ordering before applying the MCD technique. The asymptotically theoretical convergence rate is established under some regularity conditions. The merits of the proposed model is illustrated by simulation study and applications to two gene expression data sets.

Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1080/03610926.2021.1910839

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