Bayesian estimation of cluster covariance matrices of unknown form
未知聚类结构协方差矩阵的贝叶斯估计
We develop a flexible Bayesian model for cluster covariance matrices in large dimensions where the number of clusters and the assignment of cross-sectional units to a cluster are a-priori unknown and estimated from the data. In a cluster covariance matrix, the variances and covariances are equal within each diagonal block, while the covariances are equal in each off-diagonal block. This reduces the number of parameters by pooling those parameters together that are in the…