Cholesky Decompositions and Estimation of A Covariance Matrix: Orthogonality of Variance Correlation Parameters
协方差矩阵的 Cholesky 分解与方差、相关参数的正交性
Chen & Dunson ([3]) have proposed a modified Cholesky decomposition of the form σ = D L L′D for a covariance matrix where D is a diagonal matrix with entries proportional to the square roots of the diagonal entries of Σ and L is a unit lower-triangular matrix solely determining its correlation matrix. This total separation of variance and correlation is definitely a major advantage over the more traditional modified Cholesky decomposition of the form LD2L′, (Pourahmadi,…