Robust Factor Analysis for High-Dimensional Data with Outliers
含异常值高维数据的稳健因子分析
Outliers are commonly encountered in financial and economic data, and pose significant challenges to the study of the conventional factor models. This article focuses on factor analysis for high-dimensional data in the presence of random outliers. We first propose a new class of factor model which incorporates a sparse outlier matrix. We then develop a class of robust methods to estimate the factor matrix and the number of factors. Under mild conditions, consistency of the…