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Measuring strength or degree of statistical dependence between two random variables is a common problem in many domains. Pearson's correlation coefficient $\rho$ is an accurate measure of linear dependence. We show that $\rho$ is a…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-04-24 Priyantha Wijayatunga

Estimating the correlation coefficient has been a daunting work with the increasing complexity of dataset's pattern. One of the problems in manufacturing applications consists of the estimation of a critical process variable during a…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-06-12 Ming Luo , Srinivasan Radhakrishnan , Sagar Kamarthi

The need to test whether two random vectors are independent has spawned a large number of competing measures of dependence. We are interested in nonparametric measures that are invariant under strictly increasing transformations, such as…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2017-08-21 Luca Weihs , Mathias Drton , Nicolai Meinshausen

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

In the present paper, we propose a new rank correlation coefficient $r_n$, which is a sample analogue of the theoretical correlation coefficient $r$, which, in turn, was proposed in the recent work of Stepanov (2025b). We discuss the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-06-10 Alexei Stepanov

Representations of measures of concordance in terms of Pearson' s correlation coefficient are studied. All transforms of random variables are characterized such that the correlation coefficient of the transformed random variables is a…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-01-10 Takaaki Koike , Marius Hofert

The Gini score is a popular tool in statistical modeling and machine learning for model validation and model selection. It is a purely rank based score that allows one to assess risk rankings. The Gini score for statistical modeling has…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-11-20 Alexej Brauer , Mario V. Wüthrich

We compare measures of concordance that arise as Pearson's linear correlation coefficient between two random variables transformed so that they follow the so-called concordance-inducing distributions. The class of such transformed rank…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-03-07 Takaaki Koike , Marius Hofert

Direct measurements of Gini coefficients by conventional arithmetic calculations are a poor estimator, even if paradoxically, they include the entire population, as because of super-additivity they cannot lend themselves to comparisons…

Statistical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2015-10-19 Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The covariance of two random variables measures the average joint deviations from their respective means. We generalise this well-known measure by replacing the means with other statistical functionals such as quantiles, expectiles, or…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-09-22 Tobias Fissler , Marc-Oliver Pohle

Extremal dependence describes the strength of correlation between the largest observations of two variables. It is usually measured with symmetric dependence coefficients that do not depend on the order of the variables. In many cases,…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-01-24 Cristina Deidda , Sebastian Engelke , Carlo De Michele

Quantifying concordance between two random variables is crucial in applications. Traditional estimation techniques for commonly used concordance measures, such as Gini's gamma or Spearman's rho, often fail when data contain ties. This is…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-10-21 Jasper Arends , Guanjie Lyu , Mhamed Mesfioui , Elisa Perrone , Julien Trufin

A principal component analysis based on the generalized Gini correlation index is proposed (Gini PCA). The Gini PCA generalizes the standard PCA based on the variance. It is shown, in the Gaussian case, that the standard PCA is equivalent…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-10-23 Charpentier , Arthur , Mussard , Stephane , Tea Ouraga

Model attributions are important in deep neural networks as they aid practitioners in understanding the models, but recent studies reveal that attributions can be easily perturbed by adding imperceptible noise to the input. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Fan Wang , Adams Wai-Kin Kong

Detecting dependence between two random variables is a fundamental problem. Although the Pearson correlation is effective for capturing linear dependency, it can be entirely powerless for detecting nonlinear and/or heteroscedastic patterns.…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-11-21 Xufei Wang , Bo Jiang , Jun S. Liu

We introduce a new type of influence function, the asymptotic expected sensitivity function, which is often equivalent to but mathematically more tractable than the traditional one based on the Gateaux derivative. To illustrate, we study…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-01-11 Qingyang Zhang

The quotient correlation is defined here as an alternative to Pearson's correlation that is more intuitive and flexible in cases where the tail behavior of data is important. It measures nonlinear dependence where the regular correlation…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2008-12-18 Zhengjun Zhang

Pearson's is the most common correlation statistic, used mainly in parametric settings. Most common among nonparametric correlation statistics are Spearman's and Kendall's. We show that for bivariate normal i.i.d. samples the pairwise…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2009-08-03 Raymond Molzon , Iosif Pinelis

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

Pearson's $\rho$ is the most used measure of statistical dependence. It gives a complete characterization of dependence in the Gaussian case, and it also works well in some non-Gaussian situations. It is well known, however, that it has a…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-09-28 Dag Tjøstheim , Håkon Otneim , Bård Støve