Efficient estimation of linear functionals of principal components
Efficient estimation of linear functionals of principal components
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10.1214/19-aos1816
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2017-08
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V. Koltchinskii;Matthias Loffler;Richard Nickl
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V. Koltchinskii;Matthias Loffler;Richard Nickl
We study principal component analysis (PCA) for mean zero i.i.d. Gaussian observations $X_1,\dots, X_n$ in a separable Hilbert space $\mathbb{H}$ with unknown covariance operator $\Sigma.$ The complexity of the problem is characterized by its effective rank ${\bf r}(\Sigma):= \frac{{\rm tr}(\Sigma)}{\|\Sigma\|},$ where ${\rm tr}(\Sigma)$ denotes the trace of $\Sigma$ and $\|\Sigma\|$ denotes its operator norm. We develop a method of bias reduction in the problem of estimation of linear functionals of eigenvectors of $\Sigma.$ Under the assumption that ${\bf r}(\Sigma)=o(n),$ we establish the asymptotic normality and asymptotic properties of the risk of the resulting estimators and prove matching minimax lower bounds, showing their semi-parametric optimality.