How To Find A Valid Covariance Matrix
In some applications (e.g. building data models from only partially observed data) one wants to find the “nearest” covariance matrix to a given symmetric matrix (e.g. of observed covariances). In 2002, Higham formalized the notion of nearness using a weighted Frobenius norm and provided a method for computing the nearest covariance matrix.
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