The Asymptotic Distributions of the Largest Entries of Sample Correlation Matrices under an α-mixing Assumption

Let{Xk,i;k≥1,i≥1}be an array of random variables,{Xk;k≥1}be a strictly stationaryα-mixing sequence,where Xk=(Xk,1,Xk,2,...).Let{pn;n≥1}be a sequence of positive integers such that c1≤p n n≤c2,where c1,c2>0.In this paper,we obtain the asymptotic distributions of the largest entries Ln=max1≤i<j≤pn|ρ(n)ij|of the sample correlation matrices,whereρ(n)ij denotes the Pearson correlation coefficient between X(i)and X(j),X(i)=(X1,i,X2,i,...).The asymptotic distributions of Ln is derived by using the Chen–Stein Poisson approximation method.