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The spatial clustering of points from two or more classes (or species) has important implications in many fields and may cause the spatial patterns of segregation and association, which are two major types of spatial interaction between the…
The spatial interaction between two or more classes (or species) has important consequences in many fields and might cause multivariate clustering patterns such as segregation or association. The spatial pattern of segregation occurs when…
The spatial interaction between two or more classes of points may cause spatial clustering patterns such as segregation or association, which can be tested using a nearest neighbor contingency table (NNCT). A NNCT is constructed using the…
Nearest neighbor (NN) methods are employed for drawing inferences about spatial patterns of points from two or more classes. We consider Pielou's test of niche specificity which is defined using a contingency table based on the NN…
Multivariate interaction between two or more classes (or species) has important consequences in many fields and causes multivariate clustering patterns such as segregation or association. The spatial segregation occurs when members of a…
Spatial interaction between two or more classes or species has important implications in various fields and causes multivariate patterns such as segregation or association. Segregation occurs when members of a class or species are more…
Spatial interaction patterns such as segregation and association can be tested using nearest neighbor contingency tables (NNCTs). We introduce new cell-specific (or pairwise) and overall segregation tests and determine their asymptotic…
The conditional randomization test (CRT) was recently proposed to test whether two random variables X and Y are conditionally independent given random variables Z. The CRT assumes that the conditional distribution of X given Z is known…
We discuss a graph-based approach for testing spatial point patterns. This approach falls under the category of data-random graphs, which have been introduced and used for statistical pattern recognition in recent years. Our goal is to test…
Spatial clustering has important implications in various fields. In particular, disease clustering is of major public concern in epidemiology. In this article, we propose the use of two distance-based segregation indices to test the…
We use the domination number of a parametrized random digraph family called proportional-edge proximity catch digraphs (PCDs) for testing multivariate spatial point patterns. This digraph family is based on relative positions of data points…
Conditional randomization tests (CRTs) assess whether a variable $x$ is predictive of another variable $y$, having observed covariates $z$. CRTs require fitting a large number of predictive models, which is often computationally…
The distribution closeness testing (DCT) assesses whether the distance between a distribution pair is at least $\epsilon$-far. Existing DCT methods mainly measure discrepancies between a distribution pair defined on discrete one-dimensional…
Conditional independence (CI) testing is a fundamental task in modern statistics and machine learning. The conditional randomization test (CRT) was recently introduced to test whether two random variables, $X$ and $Y$, are conditionally…
Testing for dependence has been a well-established component of spatial statistical analyses for decades. In particular, several popular test statistics have desirable properties for testing for the presence of spatial autocorrelation in…
Nearest neighbor (NN) sampling provides more semantic variations than pre-defined transformations for self-supervised learning (SSL) based image recognition problems. However, its performance is restricted by the quality of the support set,…
Test of independence plays a fundamental role in many statistical techniques. Among the nonparametric approaches, the distance-based methods (such as the distance correlation based hypotheses testing for independence) have numerous…
We propose a graph-based clustering method based on Cluster Catch Digraphs (CCDs) that extends their applicability to moderate-dimensional data settings. Existing CCD variants, such as RK-CCDs, rely on spatial randomness tests based on…
Statistical inferences for sample correlation matrices are important in high dimensional data analysis. Motivated by this, this paper establishes a new central limit theorem (CLT) for a linear spectral statistic (LSS) of high dimensional…
Conditional independence testing is a fundamental problem underlying causal discovery and a particularly challenging task in the presence of nonlinear and high-dimensional dependencies. Here a fully non-parametric test for continuous data…