Sub-Gaussian High-Dimensional Covariance Matrix Estimation under Elliptical Factor Model with 2 + εth Moment
具有 2+ε 阶矩的椭圆因子模型下高维协方差矩阵的次高斯率估计
We study the estimation of high-dimensional covariance matrices under elliptical factor models with 2 + εth moment. For such heavy-tailed data, robust estimators like the Huber-type estimator in Fan, Liu and Wang (2018) can not achieve sub-Gaussian convergence rate. In this paper, we develop an idiosyncratic-projected self-normalization (IPSN) method to remove the effect of heavy-tailed scalar parameter, and propose a robust pilot estimator for the scatter matrix that…