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This paper deals with testing the equality of $k$ ($k\ge 2$) distribution functions against possible stochastic ordering among them. Two classes of rank tests are proposed for this testing problem. The statistics of the tests under study…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-06-03 Nikolay I. Nikolov , Eugenia Stoimenova

We derive explicit formulas for Kendall's tau and Spearman's rho for two broad classes of asymmetric copulas: normal location-scale mixture copulas and skew-normal scale mixture copulas. These classes encompass widely used specifications,…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-03-24 Ye Lu

So-called linear rank statistics provide a means for distribution-free (even in finite samples), yet highly flexible, two-sample testing in the setting of univariate random variables. Their flexibility derives from a choice of weights that…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-10-03 Dan D. Erdmann-Pham

In this paper, we investigate the testing problem that the spectral density matrices of several, not necessarily independent, stationary processes are equal. Based on an $L_2$-type test statistic, we propose a new nonparametric approach,…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-06-03 Carsten Jentsch , Markus Pauly

A new goodness-of-fit test for normality in high-dimension (and Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Space) is proposed. It shares common ideas with the Maximum Mean Discrepancy (MMD) it outperforms both in terms of computation time and applicability…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2014-04-14 Jérémie Kellner , Alain Celisse

In this paper, we provide a negative answer to a long-standing open problem on the compatibility of Spearman's rho matrices. Following an equivalence of Spearman's rho matrices and linear correlation matrices for dimensions up to 9 in the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-04-04 Bin Wang , Ruodu Wang , Yuming Wang

We develop a new statistical procedure to test whether the dependence structure is identical between two groups. Rather than relying on a single index such as Pearson's correlation coefficient or Kendall's Tau, we consider the entire…

Econometrics · Economics 2018-11-07 Juwon Seo

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…

Methodology · Statistics 2012-10-18 Gaorong Li , Heng Peng , Jun Zhang , Lixing Zhu

In this paper, we consider the problem of testing the mean vector in the high dimensional settings. We proposed a new robust scalar transform invariant test based on spatial sign. The proposed test statistic is asymptotically normal under…

Methodology · Statistics 2015-06-30 Long Feng , Fasheng Sun

There has been an increasing interest in testing the equality of large Pearson's correlation matrices. However, in many applications it is more important to test the equality of large rank-based correlation matrices since they are more…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-04-02 Cheng Zhou , Fang Han , Xinsheng Zhang , Han Liu

We introduce a new type of test for complete spatial randomness that applies to mapped point patterns in a rectangle or a cube of any dimension. This is the first test of its kind to be based on characteristic functions and utilizes a…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-09-23 Yiran Zeng , Dale L. Zimmerman

Testing covariance structure is of importance in many areas of statistical analysis, such as microarray analysis and signal processing. Conventional tests for finite-dimensional covariance cannot be applied to high-dimensional data in…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2013-10-31 Rongmao Zhang , Liang Peng , Ruodu Wang

This paper studies John's test for sphericity of the error terms in large panel data models, where the number of cross-section units $n$ is large enough to be comparable to the number of times series observations $T$, or even larger. Based…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-07-05 Zhaoyuan Li

The development of high-dimensional white noise test is important in both statistical theories and applications, where the dimension of the time series can be comparable to or exceed the length of the time series. This paper proposes…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-07-20 Dachuan Chen , Fengyi Song , Long Feng

We treat the problem of testing for association between a functional variable belonging to Hilbert space and a scalar variable. Particularly, we propose a distribution-free test statistic based on Kendall's Tau which is one of the most…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-12-10 Sneha Jadhav , Shuangge Ma

This paper analyzes the performances of the Spearman's rho (SR) and Kendall's tau (KT) with respect to samples drawn from bivariate normal and bivariate contaminated normal populations. The exact analytical formulae of the variance of SR…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-11-10 Weichao Xu , Yunhe Hou , Y. S. Hung , Yuexian Zou

In this work, we leverage a generative data model considering comparison noise to develop a fast, precise, and informative ranking algorithm from pairwise comparisons that produces a measure of confidence on each comparison. The problem of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Filipa Valdeira , Cláudia Soares

We consider the hypothesis testing problem of detecting a shift between the means of two multivariate normal distributions in the high-dimensional setting, allowing for the data dimension p to exceed the sample size n. Specifically, we…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-09-15 Miles E. Lopes , Laurent J. Jacob , Martin J. Wainwright

One of the most popular class of tests for independence between two random variables is the general class of rank statistics which are invariant under permutations. This class contains Spearman's coefficient of rank correlation statistic,…

Computation · Statistics 2009-02-04 Ehab F. Abd-Elfattah

Due to the broad applications of elliptical models, there is a long line of research on goodness-of-fit tests for empirically validating them. However, the existing literature on this topic is generally confined to low-dimensional settings,…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-03-04 Siyao Wang , Miles E. Lopes