plot_lw_vs_oas.py

"""
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Ledoit-Wolf vs OAS estimation
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The usual covariance maximum likelihood estimate can be regularized
using shrinkage. Ledoit and Wolf proposed a close formula to compute
the asymptotically optimal shrinkage parameter (minimizing a MSE
criterion), yielding the Ledoit-Wolf covariance estimate.

Chen et al. proposed an improvement of the Ledoit-Wolf shrinkage
parameter, the OAS coefficient, whose convergence is significantly
better under the assumption that the data are Gaussian.

This example, inspired from Chen's publication [1], shows a comparison
of the estimated MSE of the LW and OAS methods, using Gaussian
distributed data.

[1] "Shrinkage Algorithms for MMSE Covariance Estimation"
Chen et al., IEEE Trans. on Sign. Proc., Volume 58, Issue 10, October 2010.

"""

import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from scipy.linalg import toeplitz, cholesky

from sklearn.covariance import LedoitWolf, OAS

np.random.seed(0)
# %%
n_features = 100
# simulation covariance matrix (AR(1) process)
r = 0.1
real_cov = toeplitz(r ** np.arange(n_features))
coloring_matrix = cholesky(real_cov)

n_samples_range = np.arange(6, 31, 1)
repeat = 100
lw_mse = np.zeros((n_samples_range.size, repeat))
oa_mse = np.zeros((n_samples_range.size, repeat))
lw_shrinkage = np.zeros((n_samples_range.size, repeat))
oa_shrinkage = np.zeros((n_samples_range.size, repeat))
for i, n_samples in enumerate(n_samples_range):
    for j in range(repeat):
        X = np.dot(np.random.normal(size=(n_samples, n_features)), coloring_matrix.T)

        lw = LedoitWolf(store_precision=False, assume_centered=True)
        lw.fit(X)
        lw_mse[i, j] = lw.error_norm(real_cov, scaling=False)
        lw_shrinkage[i, j] = lw.shrinkage_

        oa = OAS(store_precision=False, assume_centered=True)
        oa.fit(X)
        oa_mse[i, j] = oa.error_norm(real_cov, scaling=False)
        oa_shrinkage[i, j] = oa.shrinkage_

# plot MSE
plt.subplot(2, 1, 1)
plt.errorbar(
    n_samples_range,
    lw_mse.mean(1),
    yerr=lw_mse.std(1),
    label="Ledoit-Wolf",
    color="navy",
    lw=2,
)
plt.errorbar(
    n_samples_range,
    oa_mse.mean(1),
    yerr=oa_mse.std(1),
    label="OAS",
    color="darkorange",
    lw=2,
)
plt.ylabel("Squared error")
plt.legend(loc="upper right")
plt.title("Comparison of covariance estimators")
plt.xlim(5, 31)

# plot shrinkage coefficient
plt.subplot(2, 1, 2)
plt.errorbar(
    n_samples_range,
    lw_shrinkage.mean(1),
    yerr=lw_shrinkage.std(1),
    label="Ledoit-Wolf",
    color="navy",
    lw=2,
)
plt.errorbar(
    n_samples_range,
    oa_shrinkage.mean(1),
    yerr=oa_shrinkage.std(1),
    label="OAS",
    color="darkorange",
    lw=2,
)
plt.xlabel("n_samples")
plt.ylabel("Shrinkage")
plt.legend(loc="lower right")
plt.ylim(plt.ylim()[0], 1.0 + (plt.ylim()[1] - plt.ylim()[0]) / 10.0)
plt.xlim(5, 31)

plt.show()