The asymptotic distributions of the largest entries of sample correlation matrices

Let X_n=(x_{ij}) be an n by p data matrix, where the n rows form a random sample of size n from a certain p-dimensional population distribution. Let R_n=(\rho_{ij}) be the p\times p sample correlation matrix of X_n; that is, the entry \rho_{ij} is the usual Pearson's correlation coefficient between the ith column of X_n and jth column of X_n. For contemporary data both n and p are large. When the population is a multivariate normal we study the test that H_0: the p variates of the population are uncorrelated. A test statistic is chosen as L_n=max_{i\ne j}|\rho_{ij}|. The asymptotic distribution of L_n is derived by using the Chen-Stein Poisson approximation method. Similar results for the non-Gaussian case are also derived.

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