Many kernel-based learning algorithms have the computational load scaled with the sample size n due to the column size of a full kernel Gram matrix K. This article considers the Nyström low-rank approximation. It uses a reduced kernel K̂, which is n×m, consisting of m columns (say columns...

In Jin et al. (2014), the limiting spectral distribution (LSD) of a symmetrized auto-cross covariance matrix is derived using matrix manipulation. The goal of this note is to provide a new method to derive the LSD, which greatly simplifies the derivation in Jin et al. (2014). Moreover, as a...

The positivity of the best linear unbiased estimator of the scale parameter of a location-scale family of distributions in terms of complete or selected set of order statistics has only been conjectured in the literature based solely on empirical evidence. This paper offers an analytical proof...