Meerschaert, Mark M.; Scheffler, Hans-Peter - In: Journal of Multivariate Analysis 71 (1999) 1, pp. 145-159
If a set of independent, identically distributed random vectors has heavy tails, so that the covariance matrix does not exist, there is no reason to expect that the sample covariance matrix conveys useful information. On the contrary, this paper shows that the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of the...