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Concept
Scatter matrix
Summary
For the notion in quantum mechanics, see scattering matrix.
In multivariate statistics and probability theory, the scatter matrix is a statistic that is used to make estimates of the covariance matrix, for instance of the multivariate normal distribution.
Given n samples of m-dimensional data, represented as the m-by-n matrix, , the sample mean is
where is the j-th column of .
The scatter matrix is the m-by-m positive semi-definite matrix
where denotes matrix transpose, and multiplication is with regards to the outer product. The scatter matrix may be expressed more succinctly as
where is the n-by-n centering matrix.
The maximum likelihood estimate, given n samples, for the covariance matrix of a multivariate normal distribution can be expressed as the normalized scatter matrix
When the columns of are independently sampled from a multivariate normal distribution, then has a Wishart distribution.
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