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how to avoid 0 determinant when sample covariance matrix has very small values

I have $n$, $p$-dimensional vectors and I am construction the $p$x$p$ covariance matrix using the following formula: $Cov(j,k) = {1/(n-1)} {{\sum^n_{i=1}} (x_i(j) - {\mu}(j)) * (x_i(k) - {\mu(k)}) ...
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When doing quadrat counting, how do you construct the quadrats?

I want to perform quadrat count analysis on several point processes (or one marked point process), to then apply some dimensionality reduction techniques. The marks are not identically distributed, ...
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How can I rediscretize my data?

Related to my previous question, I have a dataset of 2D points with an associated label (this label can take 6 different values). As suggested in the answers to my other question, this can be modeled ...