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Moments from characteristic function for matrices

When $x$ is a random variable with the smooth characteristic function $\phi_x(t) = \mathbb{E}e^{itx}$, we can easily compute the moments as $\mathbb{E}[x^k] = i^{-n}\phi_x^{(n)}(0)$. There is no magic ...
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Largest eigenvalues of a (random) correlation matrix?

I am recently studying on eigenvalues of a (random) correltion matrix. For a $N\times N$ correlation matrix (with a given meaning of randomness), its (1st, 2nd, etc.) eigenvalues have some ...
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Local distribution of sample covariance matrix when the number of observations/realisations is less than the matrix dimension

Given a true covariance matrix $M$ of dimension $p \times p$, we generate $n$ gaussian random vectors $X_1,..X_n \sim N(0,M)$. We then get a sample covariance matrix $M_s$ based on these $n$ ...
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Largest eigenvalue of the adjacency matrix of weighted random graph

I find the theorem for largest eigenvalue of the adjacency matrix of ER random graph in here https://arxiv.org/pdf/math/0106066.pdf. The adjacency matrix is a symmetric random matrix s.t. diagonal ...
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Largest eigenvalue divided by $n$

Let $X$ be an $n\times n$ symmetric random matrix whose diagonal is fixed as $1$, and every element in the upper triangle (excluding the diagonal) is drawn from Bernoulli($p$). The elements in the ...
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Rank of Hadamard product with random matrices

I do research in statistics and am not sure whether the following is considered research level or not in mathematics. If it isn't, I'm happy because that means the answer is probably known and I can ...
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Finding high-dimensional correlation matrices that are both sparse and low-rank

Let $\boldsymbol{R}$ be the correlation matrix of $X_i,i=1,\dots,p$ with a large $p\gg q=\text{rank}(\boldsymbol{R})$. Is that reasonable to assume that $\boldsymbol{R}$ is both (approximately) sparse ...
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Distributions over permutation groups $\mathcal{S}_n$

Partly inspired by recent developments in enumeration of pattern avoiding permutations, which is known to be connected with Brownian excursions [Hoffman&Rizzolo]. The exciting milestone is the ...
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Rank of cross-covariance matrix

Let $\boldsymbol{X}=(X_1,\dots,X_p)^T$ and $\boldsymbol{Y}=(Y_1,\dots,Y_q)^T$ be two random vectors. Denote $r_x=\text{rank}(\text{Cov}(\boldsymbol{X})),r_y=\text{rank}(\text{Cov}(\boldsymbol{Y})), r_{...
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Multinomial transformation for matrices

Suppose we have a vector of probabilities $\mathbf{p}=(p_1,...,p_n)$, where $p_i>0$ for $i=1,...n$ and $\sum p_i=1$. Define new vector $\mathbf{r}=(r_1,...,r_{n-1})$ in a following way: $r_i=\log(...
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Convergence rate of Pearson correlation matrix

I am interested in (rather sharp if not the finest) tail/concentration bounds for the Pearson correlation matrix: let $X_1,\ldots,X_N \sim \mathcal{N}(0,1)$ be correlated random variables; let $\rho(...
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Gaussian expectation of an exponentiated outer product

Given a normal random column vector $\mathbf{x} \sim N(\mu, \Sigma)$, I need the expectation, $$ E\left[ \exp(\mathbf{xx}^\top)\right]$$ where $\exp(\cdot)$ is element-wise exponential function (not ...
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Weak ergodicity of nonhomogenous products of 0-1 matrices

Here is a question which probably has a negative answer, but I couldn't find any literature directly on it. Let $(A_n)$ be a sequence of rectangular 0-1 matrices (that is, the entries are restricted ...