Gaussian approximations and multiplier bootstrap for maxima of sums of high-dimensional random vectors
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Chetverikov, Denis; Kato, Kengo; Chernozhukov, Victor V.
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We derive a Gaussian approximation result for the maximum of a sum of high-dimensional random vectors. Specifically, we establish conditions under which the distribution of the maximum is approximated by that of the maximum of a sum of the Gaussian random vectors with the same covariance matrices as the original vectors. This result applies when the dimension of random vectors (p) is large compared to the sample size (n); in fact, p can be much larger than n, without restricting correlations of the coordinates of these vectors. We also show that the distribution of the maximum of a sum of the random vectors with unknown covariance matrices can be consistently estimated by the distribution of the maximum of a sum of the conditional Gaussian random vectors obtained by multiplying the original vectors with i.i.d. Gaussian multipliers. This is the Gaussian multiplier (or wild) bootstrap procedure. Here too, p can be large or even much larger than n. These distributional approximations, either Gaussian or conditional Gaussian, yield a high-quality approximation to the distribution of the original maximum, often with approximation error decreasing polynomially in the sample size, and hence are of interest in many applications. We demonstrate how our Gaussian approximations and the multiplier bootstrap can be used for modern high-dimensional estimation, multiple hypothesis testing, and adaptive specification testing. All these results contain nonasymptotic bounds on approximation errors.
Date issued
2013-12Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of EconomicsJournal
The Annals of Statistics
Publisher
Institute of Mathematical Statistics
Citation
Chernozhukov, Victor, Denis Chetverikov, and Kengo Kato. “Gaussian Approximations and Multiplier Bootstrap for Maxima of Sums of High-Dimensional Random Vectors.” Ann. Statist. 41, no. 6 (December 2013): 2786–2819. © Institute of Mathematical Statistics, 2013
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0090-5364