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The exploration of associations between random objects with complex geometric structures has catalyzed the development of various novel statistical tests encompassing distance-based and kernel-based statistics. These methods have various…
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In this paper, we study the problems in the discrete Fourier transform (DFT) test included in NIST SP 800-22 released by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), which is a collection of tests for evaluating both physical…
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Rank correlations have found many innovative applications in the last decade. In particular, suitable rank correlations have been used for consistent tests of independence between pairs of random variables. Using ranks is especially…
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Independence screening is a variable selection method that uses a ranking criterion to select significant variables, particularly for statistical models with nonpolynomial dimensionality or "large p, small n" paradigms when p can be as…
We discuss a simplified version of the testing problem considered by Pelican and Graham (2019): testing for interdependencies in preferences over links among N (possibly heterogeneous) agents in a network. We describe an exact test which…