On Robust Estimators of a Sphericity Measure in High Dimension

Esa Ollila () and Hyon-Jung Kim ()
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Esa Ollila: Aalto University, School of Electrical Engineering, Department of Signal Processing and Acoustics
Hyon-Jung Kim: Tampere University, Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences, Unit of Computing Sciences

A chapter in Robust and Multivariate Statistical Methods, 2023, pp 179-195 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The need to test (or estimate) sphericity arises in various applications in statistics, and thus the problem has been investigated in numerous papers. Recently, estimates of a sphericity measure are needed in high-dimensional shrinkage covariance matrix estimation problems, wherein the (oracle) shrinkage parameter minimizing the mean squared error (MSE) depends on the unknown sphericity parameter. The purpose of this chapter is to investigate the performance of robust sphericity measure estimators recently proposed within the framework of elliptically symmetric distributions when the data dimensionality, p, is of similar magnitude as the sample size, n. The population measure of sphericity that we consider here is defined as the ratio of the mean of the squared eigenvalues of the scatter matrix parameter relative to the mean of its eigenvalues squared. We illustrate that robust sphericity estimators based on the spatial sign covariance matrix (SSCM) or M-estimators of scatter matrix provide superior performance for diverse covariance matrix models compared to sphericity estimators based on the sample covariance matrix (SCM) when distributions are heavy-tailed and n = O(p). At the same time, they provide equivalent performance when the data are Gaussian. Our examples also illustrate the important role that the sphericity plays in determining the attainable accuracy of the SCM.

Keywords: Elliptical distributions; High-dimensional statistics; M-estimators of scatter matrix; Robust statistics; Sign covariance matrix; Sphericity parameter (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-22687-8_9

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