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Table 2 Competing criterion functions in the existing literature

From: An RMT-based generalized Bayesian information criterion for signal enumeration

Criterion

Noise type

Function

BN-AIC

Gaussian

\(\hat{k} = \arg \min \limits _{k}(m - k) n \log \frac{\frac{1}{m-k}\sum ^m_{i =k+1}{\hat{\lambda }}_{i}}{\prod ^m_{i = k+1}{\hat{\lambda }}_i^{1/(m-k)}} + 2Ck\big (m + 1 - \frac{k + 1}{2}\big )\)

\(C = 2 + 0.001 \times \log n\)

RMT-AIC

Gaussian

\(\hat{k} = \arg \min \limits _{k}\frac{n^2}{2} \bigg [\frac{(m - k) \sum ^m_{i =k+1}{\hat{\lambda }}_i^2}{\big ( \sum ^m_{i =k+1}{\hat{\lambda }}_i \big )^2} - \big (1 + \frac{m}{n}\big )\bigg ]^2 + 2(k + 1)\)

BIC-Variant

Gaussian

\(\begin{aligned} \hat{k} &= \arg \min \limits _{k}2n(m - k) \log \frac{\frac{1}{m-k}\sum ^m_{i =k + 1}{\hat{\lambda }}_i}{\prod ^m_{i = k + 1}{\hat{\lambda }}_i^{1/(m-k)}} + mk\log (2n) \\ & \quad- m\sum ^k_{i = 1}\log \frac{{\hat{\lambda }}_i}{\frac{1}{m-k}\sum ^m_{i =k+1}{\hat{\lambda }}_i} \end{aligned}\)

EEE

Gaussian non-Gaussian

\(\begin{aligned} \hat{k} & = \arg \min \limits _{k}\frac{-1}{m - k}\sum ^m_{j = k + 1}\log \big (\frac{1}{m - k}\sum ^m_{i = k + 1}K_G({\hat{\lambda }}_j - {\hat{\lambda }}_i)\big ) \\ & \quad- + \frac{1}{m - k + 1}\sum ^M_{j = k}\log \Big (\frac{1}{m - k +1}\sum ^M_{i = k}K_G({\hat{\lambda }}_j -{\hat{\lambda }}_i)\Big ) \end{aligned}\)

where \(K_G(x) = \frac{1}{\sqrt{2\pi }} e^{-\frac{x^2}{2}}\)

GBIC-SP

Gaussian non-Gaussian

\(\hat{k} = \arg \min \limits _{k}\frac{(n-1)^2}{4}({\hat{T}}^{(k)} - 1)^2 + (k + 1)\log n\)

where \({\hat{T}}^{(k)}\) is the test statistic for sphericity (see (13) in [21])