Marchenko–Pastur distribution

In the mathematical theory of random matrices, the Marchenko–Pastur distribution, or Marchenko–Pastur law, describes the asymptotic behavior of singular values of large rectangular random matrices. The theorem is named after Ukrainian mathematicians Vladimir Marchenko and Leonid Pastur who proved this result in 1967.

Plot of the Marchenko-Pastur distribution for various values of lambda

If denotes a random matrix whose entries are independent identically distributed random variables with mean 0 and variance , let

and let be the eigenvalues of (viewed as random variables). Finally, consider the random measure

Theorem. Assume that so that the ratio . Then (in weak* topology in distribution), where

and

with

The Marchenko–Pastur law also arises as the free Poisson law in free probability theory, having rate and jump size .

Cumulative distribution function

Using the same notation, cumulative distribution function reads

where and .

Some transforms of this law

The Cauchy transform (which is the negative of the Stieltjes transformation), when , is given by

This gives an -transform of:

Application to correlation matrices

When applied to correlation matrices and which leads to the bounds

Hence, it is often assumed that eigenvalues of correlation matrices lower than are by a chance, and the values higher than are the significant common factors. For instance, obtaining a correlation matrix of a year long series (i.e. 252 trading days) of 10 stock returns, would render . Out of 10 eigen values of the correlation matrix only the values higher than 1.43 would be considered significant.

See also

References

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