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The distance covariance of two random vectors is a measure of their dependence. The empirical distance covariance and correlation can be used as statistical tools for testing whether two random vectors are independent. We propose an analogs…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2017-03-31 Muneya Matsui , Thomas Mikosch , Gennady Samorodnitsky

We are concerned with the detection of associations between random vectors of any dimension. Few tests of independence exist that are consistent against all dependent alternatives. We propose a powerful test that is applicable in all…

Methodology · Statistics 2013-08-08 Ruth Heller , Yair Heller , Malka Gorfine

We introduce a new random matrix model called distance covariance matrix in this paper, whose normalized trace is equivalent to the distance covariance. We first derive a deterministic limit for the eigenvalue distribution of the distance…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-05-18 Weiming Li , Qinwen Wang , Jianfeng Yao

We propose three measures of mutual dependence between multiple random vectors. All the measures are zero if and only if the random vectors are mutually independent. The first measure generalizes distance covariance from pairwise dependence…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-05-18 Ze Jin , David S. Matteson

We generalize an integral which arises in several areas in probability and statistics and which is at the core of the field of distance correlation, a concept developed by Sz\'ekely, Rizzo and Bakirov (2007) to measure dependence between…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2014-12-02 Johannes Dueck , Dominic Edelmann , Donald Richards

Distance covariance is a widely used statistical methodology for testing the dependency between two groups of variables. Despite the appealing properties of consistency and superior testing power, the testing results of distance covariance…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-03-20 Andi Wang , Hao Yan , Juan Du

The "maximum similarity correlation" definition introduced in this study is motivated by the seminal work of Szekely et al on "distance covariance" (Ann. Statist. 2007, 35: 2769-2794; Ann. Appl. Stat. 2009, 3: 1236-1265). Instead of using…

The distance standard deviation, which arises in distance correlation analysis of multivariate data, is studied as a measure of spread. The asymptotic distribution of the empirical distance standard deviation is derived under the assumption…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-12-12 Dominic Edelmann , Donald Richards , Daniel Vogel

This article deals with the problem of testing conditional independence between two random vectors ${\bf X}$ and ${\bf Y}$ given a confounding random vector ${\bf Z}$. Several authors have considered this problem for multivariate data.…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-09-16 Bilol Banerjee

Measuring the (causal) direction and strength of dependence between two variables (events), Xi and Xj , is fundamental for all science. Our survey of decades-long literature on statistical dependence reveals that most assume symmetry in the…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-12-01 Hrishikesh Vinod

Classical dependence measures such as Pearson correlation, Spearman's $\rho$, and Kendall's $\tau$ can detect only monotonic or linear dependence. To overcome these limitations, Szekely et al.(2007) proposed distance covariance as a…

Computation · Statistics 2019-02-07 Arin Chaudhuri , Wenhao Hu

Some first results are presented regarding the behavior of invariant correlations in simplicial gravity, with an action containing both a bare cosmological term and a lattice higher derivative term. The determination of invariant…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-22 Herbert W. Hamber

We introduce the Randomized Dependence Coefficient (RDC), a measure of non-linear dependence between random variables of arbitrary dimension based on the Hirschfeld-Gebelein-R\'enyi Maximum Correlation Coefficient. RDC is defined in terms…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2013-06-04 David Lopez-Paz , Philipp Hennig , Bernhard Schölkopf

Distance covariance and distance correlation have been widely adopted in measuring dependence of a pair of random variables or random vectors. If the computation of distance covariance and distance correlation is implemented directly…

Computation · Statistics 2014-10-07 Xiaoming Huo , Gabor J. Szekely

We take a different look at the problem of testing the independence of two metric-space-valued random variables using the distance correlation. Instead of testing if the distance correlation vanishes exactly, we are interested in the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-11-19 Holger Dette , Marius Kroll

Generalized dimensions of multifractal measures are usually seen as static objects, related to the scaling properties of suitable partition functions, or moments of measures of cells. When these measures are invariant for the flow of a…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2019-10-02 Théophile Caby , Davide Faranda , Giorgio Mantica , Sandro Vaienti , Pascal Yiou

H\"usler-Reiss vectors and Brown-Resnick fields are popular models in multivariate and spatial extreme-value theory, respectively, and are widely used in applications. We provide analytical formulas for the correlation between powers of the…

Applications · Statistics 2022-03-02 Erwan Koch

We consider the problem of calculating distance correlation coefficients between random vectors whose joint distributions belong to the class of Lancaster distributions. We derive under mild convergence conditions a general series…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-11-30 Johannes Dueck , Dominic Edelmann , Donald Richards

The Azadkia-Chatterjee coefficient is a rank-based measure of dependence between a random variable $Y \in \mathbb{R}$ and a random vector ${\boldsymbol Z} \in \mathbb{R}^{d_Z}$. In this paper, we propose a multivariate extension that…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-01-05 Wenjie Huang , Zonghan Li , Yuhao Wang

Let $\cal{P}$ be an affine invariant property of functions $\mathbb{F}_p^n \to [R]$ for fixed $p$ and $R$. We show that if $\cal{P}$ is locally testable with a constant number of queries, then one can estimate the distance of a function $f$…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2013-06-05 Hamed Hatami , Shachar Lovett