Probability & Statistics

Learn Random Matrix Theory

What the eigenvalues of a large random matrix do: the empirical spectral distribution and Wigner's semicircle law reached by the moment method, the Gaussian ensembles and the Dyson index, the joint eigenvalue density and the level repulsion hidden in its Vandermonde factor, Wishart matrices and the Marchenko-Pastur law, Tracy-Widom edge statistics, the BBP phase transition that decides when a real signal is visible at all, the circular law and non-normality, free probability, universality, Dyson Brownian motion, determinantal processes, random graph spectra, and what all of it says about principal component analysis in high dimensions.

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What you'll learn

18 lessons in Random Matrix Theory

Wigner matrices and the spectral distributionThe semicircle lawThe moment method and Catalan numbersThe Gaussian ensembles and the Dyson indexThe joint eigenvalue density and the VandermondeLevel repulsion and the Wigner surmiseWishart matrices and sample covarianceThe Marchenko-Pastur lawEdge statistics and the Tracy-Widom lawSpiked covariance and the BBP transitionThe circular law and non-normalityFreenessThe R-transform and free convolutionUniversalityDyson Brownian motionDeterminantal processes and the sine kernelSpectra of random graphsHigh-dimensional PCA in practice
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