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A well-conditioned estimator for large-dimensional covariance matrices
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Lotte, F., & Jeunet, C. (2020) · HAL · doi:10.3217/978-3-85125-533-1-53 · Cited by 13
“For classDis, restDis and classStab, the covariance matrices for each trial were estimated using automatic shrinkage using the method from [7].”
Steland, A. (2018) · Statistical Papers · doi:10.1007/s00362-018-1040-y · Cited by 12
Big Data in Portfolio Allocation: A New Approach to Successful Portfolio Optimization
Aldridge, I. (2019) · The Journal of Financial Data Science · doi:10.3905/jfds.2019.1.045 · Cited by 12
“Best and Grauer (1992); Chan, Karceski, and Lakonishok (1999); and Ledoit and Wolf (2004a, 2004b) proposed methods for reducing the errors in the estimation of variance–covariance matrixes.”
MethodMohebbi, S., Pamukçu, E., & Bozdogan, H. (2019) · Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation · doi:10.1080/00949655.2019.1576683 · Cited by 12
“Ledoit and Wolf [27] without the knowledge of the sampling distribution model proposed the shrinkage intensity ˆ ρ LW given in Table 1.”
BackgroundMethodHyperparameter Optimization for Portfolio Selection
Nystrup, P., Lindström, E., & Madsen, H. (2020) · The Journal of Financial Data Science · doi:10.3905/jfds.2020.1.035 · Cited by 12
Collaborative Filtering with Preferences Inferred from Brain Signals
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“Wolf lemma [35], is found to be robust for single-trial EEG/ERP classification [7].”
BackgroundIvanoska, I., Trivodaliev, K. V., Kalajdziski, S., & Zanin, M. (2021) · Brain Sciences · doi:10.3390/brainsci11060735 · Cited by 16
“We here use a form of shrinkage estimation [29] that shrinks the sample covariance matrix towards the identity matrix, and which is equivalent to considering an asymptotically optimal convex linear combination of the two.”
MethodBagheri, M., & Power, S. (2021) · Brain-Computer Interfaces · doi:10.1080/2326263x.2021.1948756 · Cited by 12
The minimum weighted covariance determinant estimator for high-dimensional data
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Metadata
- Authors
- Ledoit, O., & Wolf, M.
- Affiliations
- University of California, Los Angeles (US)
- Universitat Pompeu Fabra (ES)
- Corresponding author
- Wolf, Michael
- Venue
- Journal of Multivariate Analysis
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2004-02
- Volume
- 88
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 365-411
- ISSN
- 0047-259X (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2062125287
- Semantic Scholar
- b40890f3d917379ac4bd2e0933a134d45b4dc251
- Cited by
- 3,046
- References
- 24
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 12.70
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Journal of Multivariate Analysis (publishedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- e-Archivo (Carlos III University of Madrid) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- Funders
- Yale University
- McDonnell Center for Systems Neuroscience
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Mathematics › Statistics and Probability › Statistical Methods and Inference
- Physical Sciences › Mathematics › Statistics and Probability › Random Matrices and Applications
- Physical Sciences › Mathematics › Statistics and Probability › Advanced Statistical Methods and Models
- Keywords
- covariance matrix estimation, sample covariance matrix, convex combination, asymptotic optimality, squared error loss
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