Diagonal Attenuation: A Finite-Sample Correction for PCA
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arXiv:2609.05796v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Principal component analysis (PCA) can rotate away from its population target when a covariance matrix is estimated from limited data. We introduce diagonal attenuation, which preserves sample cross-covariances while reducing coordinatewise sample var…
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Diagonal Attenuation: A Finite-Sample Correction for PCA