2016/06/01 by Ilaria Giulini, Giulini, Ilaria
Computer Science · Engineering · Mathematics · #62G05 #62G35 #62H25 #Blind Source Separation Techniques #FOS: Mathematics #Random Matrices and Applications #Sparse and Compressive Sensing Techniques #Statistics Theory (math.ST)
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1606.00187
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We propose a stable version of Principal Component Analysis (PCA) in the general framework of a separable Hilbert space. It consists in interpreting the projection on the first eigenvectors as a step function applied to the spectrum of the covariance operator and in replacing it with a smooth cut-off of the eigenvalues. We study the problem from a statistical point of view, so that we assume that we do not have direct access to the covariance operator but we have to estimate it from an i.i.d. sample. We provide some results on the quality of the approximation of our spectral cut-off in terms of the quality of the approximation of the eigenvalues of the covariance operator.