Lassoing Eigenvalues

05/21/2018

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by   David E. Tyler, et al.

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The properties of penalized sample covariance matrices depend on the choice of the penalty function. In this paper, we introduce a class of non-smooth penalty functions for the sample covariance matrix, and demonstrate how this method results in a grouping of the estimated eigenvalues. We refer to this method as "lassoing eigenvalues" or as the "elasso".