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Number of Observations for Non-Singular Covariance Matrix Estimation

Marcos López de Prado writes the following in his book Advances in Financial Machine Learning: In general, we need at least \frac{1}{2} N (N+1) independent and ...
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Is a more robust Covariance estimation possible?

I'm working on a mean-variance optimization problem, but instead of financial securities I'm choosing a 'portfolio' of N athletes. It is a 1-period optimization problem over one generic statistic ...
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Portfolio Optimisation/Covariance Estimation on a large scale

When using Markowitz Portfolio Theory, e.g. for finding an optimal portfolio composition, one needs to have estimates of the returns, but most importantly of the covariance matrix. If our universe of ...
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