Generate a banding operator with given dimention and tuning parameter. Multiplying
it on a covariance matrix by componentwise product can provide a regularized estimator
with the banding method.
Usage
banding(p, k = 1)
Arguments
p
the dimension of a covariance matrix.
k
the default value is 1.
Value
a p*p matrix.
References
Bickel, P and Levina, E, Regularized estimation of large covariance matrices,
Annals of Statistics, 36, 199-227 (2008).