2 papers
math.ST2025
On Convergence Rates of Spiked Eigenvalue Estimates: A General Study of Global and Local Laws in Sample Covariance Matrices
Bing-Yi Jing, Weiming Li, Jiahui Xie +2
This paper investigates global and local laws for sample covariance matrices with general growth rates of dimensions. The sample size and population dimension can have the…
stat.ME2025
The Spurious Factor Dilemma: Robust Inference in Heavy-Tailed Elliptical Factor Models
Jiang Hu, Jiahui Xie, Yangchun Zhang +1
Standard methods for determining the number of factors often overestimate the true number when data exhibit heavy-tailed randomness, misinterpreting noise-induced outliers as genui…