Functional CLT for sample covariance matrices

Using Bernstein polynomial approximations, we prove the central limit theorem for linear spectral statistics of sample covariance matrices, indexed by a set of functions with continuous fourth order derivatives on an open interval including $[(1-\sqrt{y})^2,(1+\sqrt{y})^2]$, the support of the Mar\u{c}enko--Pastur law. We also derive the explicit expressions for asymptotic mean and covariance functions.Comment: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.3150/10-BEJ250 the Bernoulli (http://isi.cbs.nl/bernoulli/) by the International Statistical Institute/Bernoulli Society (http://isi.cbs.nl/BS/bshome.htm

On testing the equality of high dimensional mean vectors with unequal covariance matrices

In this article, we focus on the problem of testing the equality of several high dimensional mean vectors with unequal covariance matrices. This is one of the most important problem in multivariate statistical analysis and there have been various tests proposed in the literature. Motivated by \citet{BaiS96E} and \cite{ChenQ10T}, a test statistic is introduced and the asymptomatic distributions under the null hypothesis as well as the alternative hypothesis are given. In addition, it is compared with a test statistic recently proposed by \cite{SrivastavaK13Ta}. It is shown that our test statistic performs much better especially in the large dimensional case

A Note on Rate of Convergence in Probability to Semicircular Law

In the present paper, we prove that under the assumption of the finite sixth moment for elements of a Wigner matrix, the convergence rate of its empirical spectral distribution to the Wigner semicircular law in probability is $O(n^{-1/2})$ when the dimension $n$ tends to infinity.Comment: 13 page

Convergence of the empirical spectral distribution function of Beta matrices

Let $\mathbf{B}_n=\mathbf {S}_n(\mathbf {S}_n+\alpha_n\mathbf {T}_N)^{-1}$, where $\mathbf {S}_n$ and $\mathbf {T}_N$ are two independent sample covariance matrices with dimension $p$ and sample sizes $n$ and $N$, respectively. This is the so-called Beta matrix. In this paper, we focus on the limiting spectral distribution function and the central limit theorem of linear spectral statistics of $\mathbf {B}_n$. Especially, we do not require $\mathbf {S}_n$ or $\mathbf {T}_N$ to be invertible. Namely, we can deal with the case where $p>\max\{n,N\}$ and $p<n+N$. Therefore, our results cover many important applications which cannot be simply deduced from the corresponding results for multivariate $F$ matrices.Comment: Published at http://dx.doi.org/10.3150/14-BEJ613 in the Bernoulli (http://isi.cbs.nl/bernoulli/) by the International Statistical Institute/Bernoulli Society (http://isi.cbs.nl/BS/bshome.htm