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Multilevel maximum likelihood estimation with application to covariance matrices

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  • Marie Turčičová
  • Jan Mandel
  • Kryštof Eben

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The asymptotic variance of the maximum likelihood estimate is proved to decrease when the maximization is restricted to a subspace that contains the true parameter value. Maximum likelihood estimation allows a systematic fitting of covariance models to the sample, which is important in data assimilation. The hierarchical maximum likelihood approach is applied to the spectral diagonal covariance model with different parameterizations of eigenvalue decay, and to the sparse inverse covariance model with specified parameter values on different sets of nonzero entries. It is shown computationally that using smaller sets of parameters can decrease the sampling noise in high dimension substantially.

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  • Marie Turčičová & Jan Mandel & Kryštof Eben, 2019. "Multilevel maximum likelihood estimation with application to covariance matrices," Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 48(4), pages 909-925, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:lstaxx:v:48:y:2019:i:4:p:909-925
    DOI: 10.1080/03610926.2017.1422755
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