Type: Article
Publication Date: 2004-06-01
Citations: 83
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3150/bj/1089206408
It is shown that the Kolmogorov distance between the spectral distribution function of a random covariance matrix (1/p)XXT, where X is an n×p matrix with independent entries and the distribution function of the Marchenko-Pastur law is of order O(n-1/2) in probability. The bound is explicit and requires that the twelfth moment of the entries of the matrix is uniformly bounded and that p/n is separated from 1.