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Distribution of the largest eigenvalue for real Wishart and Gaussian random matrices and a simple approximation for the Tracy-Widom distribution

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arxiv 1209.3394 v5 pith:WHUKGEJV submitted 2012-09-15 cs.IT math.ITmath.STstat.TH

Distribution of the largest eigenvalue for real Wishart and Gaussian random matrices and a simple approximation for the Tracy-Widom distribution

classification cs.IT math.ITmath.STstat.TH
keywords distributionmatriceseigenvalueexactgaussianlargestrandomreal
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We derive efficient recursive formulas giving the exact distribution of the largest eigenvalue for finite dimensional real Wishart matrices and for the Gaussian Orthogonal Ensemble (GOE). In comparing the exact distribution with the limiting distribution of large random matrices, we also found that the Tracy-Widom law can be approximated by a properly scaled and shifted Gamma distribution, with great accuracy for the values of common interest in statistical applications.

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