Many-sample tests for the dimensionality hypothesis for large covariance matrices among groups

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Hauptverfasser: Mei, Tianxing, Wang, Chen, Yao, Jianfeng
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author Mei, Tianxing
Wang, Chen
Yao, Jianfeng
author_facet Mei, Tianxing
Wang, Chen
Yao, Jianfeng
contents In this paper, we consider procedures for testing hypotheses on the dimension of the linear span generated by a growing number of $p\times p$ covariance matrices from independent $q$ populations. Under a proper limiting scheme where all the parameters, $q$, $p$, and the sample sizes from the $q$ populations, are allowed to increase to infinity, we derive the asymptotic normality of the proposed test statistics. The proposed test procedures show satisfactory performance in finite samples under both the null and the alternative. We also apply the proposed many-sample dimensionality test to investigate a matrix-valued gene dataset from the Mouse Aging Project and gain some new knowledge about its covariance structures.
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spellingShingle Many-sample tests for the dimensionality hypothesis for large covariance matrices among groups
Mei, Tianxing
Wang, Chen
Yao, Jianfeng
Statistics Theory
62H15(Primary), 62H10(Secondary)
In this paper, we consider procedures for testing hypotheses on the dimension of the linear span generated by a growing number of $p\times p$ covariance matrices from independent $q$ populations. Under a proper limiting scheme where all the parameters, $q$, $p$, and the sample sizes from the $q$ populations, are allowed to increase to infinity, we derive the asymptotic normality of the proposed test statistics. The proposed test procedures show satisfactory performance in finite samples under both the null and the alternative. We also apply the proposed many-sample dimensionality test to investigate a matrix-valued gene dataset from the Mouse Aging Project and gain some new knowledge about its covariance structures.
title Many-sample tests for the dimensionality hypothesis for large covariance matrices among groups
topic Statistics Theory
62H15(Primary), 62H10(Secondary)
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.12653