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arxiv: 1708.03551 · v1 · pith:YNSBWG3Rnew · submitted 2017-08-11 · 🧮 math.PR · math.ST· q-fin.MF· stat.TH

On the overestimation of the largest eigenvalue of a covariance matrix

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In this paper, we use a new approach to prove that the largest eigenvalue of the sample covariance matrix of a normally distributed vector is bigger than the true largest eigenvalue with probability 1 when the dimension is infinite. We prove a similar result for the smallest eigenvalue.

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