Rank tests for PCA under weak identifiability
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弱可识别条件下主成分分析的秩检验
- 研究问题
- 当形状矩阵的前两个特征值之比趋近于一，使首要特征向量在极限中不可识别时，如何有效检验该向量是否等于指定方向？
- 方法与思路
- 作者在椭圆分布三角阵列下研究局部渐近正态及非局部渐近正态极限实验，借助 Le Cam 引理分析多元秩检验的零假设与备择性质。
- 材料陈述的贡献
- 摘要称，秩检验在不同弱识别程度下保持名义水平，且高斯得分秩检验在渐近相对效率上统一优于参数式伪高斯对手，并有模拟支持。
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- 应核对特征值接近的速率、椭圆分布与可微性条件，以及名义水平和统一效率结论的比较范围，特别关注非标准极限实验的处理。
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In a triangular array framework where n observations are randomly sampled from a p-dimensional elliptical distribution with shape matrix Vn, we consider the problem of testing the null hypothesis H0:θ=θ0 against the alternative hypothesis H1:θ≠θ0, where θ is the (fixed) leading unit eigenvector of Vn and θ0 is a given unit p-vector. The dependence of the shape matrix on the sample size allows us to consider challenging asymptotic scenarios in which the parameter of interest θ is unidentified in the limit, because the ratio between both leading eigenvalues of Vn converges to one. We carefully study the corresponding limiting experiments under such weak identifiability, and we show that these may be LAN or non-LAN. While earlier work in the framework was strictly limited to Gaussian distributions, where the study of local log-likelihood ratios could simply rely on explicit expressions, our asymptotic investigation allows for essentially arbitrary elliptical distributions. This requires original results on quadratic mean differentiable families for triangular arrays of observations, which are likely to be of interest in other models, too. Even in non-LAN experiments, our results enable us to investigate, through Le Cam’s first and third lemmas, the asymptotic null and nonnull properties of multivariate rank tests. These nonparametric tests are shown to exhibit an excellent behavior under weak identifiability: not only do they maintain the target nominal size irrespective of the amount of weak identifiability, but they also keep their outstanding uniform efficiency properties under such nonstandard scenarios. In particular, Gaussian-score rank tests, under arbitrarily weak identifiability, still uniformly dominate their parametric pseudo-Gaussian competitor in terms of asymptotic relative efficiencies. Our theoretical results, which are the first ones to study rank tests in the triangular array framework allowing for weak identifiability, are supported by several Monte Carlo exercises.