Implements a James-Stein-type shrinkage estimator for the covariance matrix, with separate shrinkage for variances and correlations. The details of the method are explained in Schafer and Strimmer (2005) <DOI:10.2202/1544-6115.1175> and Opgen-Rhein and Strimmer (2007) <DOI:10.2202/1544-6115.1252>. The approach is both computationally as well as statistically very efficient, it is applicable to "small n, large p" data, and always returns a positive definite and well-conditioned covariance ...
