TY - JOUR A1 - Kawanabe, Motoaki A1 - Blanchard, Gilles A1 - Sugiyama, Masashi A1 - Spokoiny, Vladimir G. A1 - Müller, Klaus-Robert T1 - A novel dimension reduction procedure for searching non-Gaussian subspaces N2 - In this article, we consider high-dimensional data which contains a low-dimensional non-Gaussian structure contaminated with Gaussian noise and propose a new linear method to identify the non-Gaussian subspace. Our method NGCA (Non-Gaussian Component Analysis) is based on a very general semi-parametric framework and has a theoretical guarantee that the estimation error of finding the non-Gaussian components tends to zero at a parametric rate. NGCA can be used not only as preprocessing for ICA, but also for extracting and visualizing more general structures like clusters. A numerical study demonstrates the usefulness of our method Y1 - 2006 UR - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/12324 UR - http://www.springerlink.com/content/105633/ SN - 0302-9743 ER -