Partial correlation screening for estimating large precision matrices, with applications to classification
用于大型精度矩阵估计的偏相关筛选及其分类应用
Given $n$ samples $X_{1},X_{2},\ldots,X_{n}$ from $N(0,\Sigma)$, we are interested in estimating the $p\times p$ precision matrix $\Omega=\Sigma^{-1}$; we assume $\Omega$ is sparse in that each row has relatively few nonzeros. We propose Partial Correlation Screening (PCS) as a new row-by-row approach. To estimate the $i$th row of $\Omega$, $1\leq i\leq p$, PCS uses a Screen step and a Clean step. In the Screen step, PCS recruits a (small) subset of indices using a…