Zhou, Xiaoping; Malioutov, Dmitry; Fabozzi, Frank J.; … - In: Quantitative Finance 14 (2014) 9, pp. 1555-1571
Sample covariance is known to be a poor estimate when the data are scarce compared with the dimension. To reduce the estimation error, various structures are usually imposed on the covariance such as low-rank plus diagonal (factor models), banded models and sparse inverse covariances. We...