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Representations of probability measures in reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces provide a flexible framework for fully nonparametric hypothesis tests of independence, which can capture any type of departure from independence, including…

Computation · Statistics 2018-06-11 Qinyi Zhang , Sarah Filippi , Arthur Gretton , Dino Sejdinovic

We establish the limiting spectral distribution of Kendall's correlation matrices in the moderate high-dimensional regime where the dimension grows slower than the sample size. Our framework allows observations to be independent but not…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-03-10 Raunak Shevade , Monika Bhattacharjee

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

Linear independence testing is a fundamental information-theoretic and statistical problem that can be posed as follows: given $n$ points $\{(X_i,Y_i)\}^n_{i=1}$ from a $p+q$ dimensional multivariate distribution where $X_i \in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-01-26 Aaditya Ramdas , David Isenberg , Aarti Singh , Larry Wasserman

In this article, we propose a class of $L_q$-norm based U-statistics for a family of global testing problems related to high-dimensional data. This includes testing of mean vector and its spatial sign, simultaneous testing of linear model…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-03-16 Yangfan Zhang , Runmin Wang , Xiaofeng Shao

This paper aims to develop an effective model-free inference procedure for high-dimensional data. We first reformulate the hypothesis testing problem via sufficient dimension reduction framework. With the aid of new reformulation, we…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-05-17 Xu Guo , Runze Li , Zhe Zhang , Changliang Zou

A block covariance structure is widely observed across large-scale and high-dimensional datasets in diverse fields such as biology, medicine, engineering, economics, and finance. This pattern entails partitioning a covariance matrix into…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-04-22 Yifan Yang , Shuo Chen , Ming Wang

Distance correlation is a measure of dependence between two paired random vectors or matrices of arbitrary, not necessarily equal, dimensions. Unlike Pearson correlation, the population distance correlation coefficient is zero if and only…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-06-19 Kontemeniotis Nikolaos , Vargiakakis Rafail , Tsagris Michail

Recognizing, quantifying and visualizing associations between two variables is increasingly important. This paper investigates how a new function-valued measure of dependence, the quantile dependence function, can be used to construct tests…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-04-16 Ćmiel Bogdan , Ledwina Teresa

One of the main necessities for population geneticists is the availability of statistical tools that enable to accept or reject the neutral Wright-Fisher model with high power. A number of statistical tests have been developed to detect…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2010-11-08 Luca Ferretti , Giacomo Marmorini , Sebastian Ramos-Onsins

Testing for the equality of two high-dimensional distributions is a challenging problem, and this becomes even more challenging when the sample size is small. Over the last few decades, several graph-based two-sample tests have been…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-11-22 Soham Sarkar , Rahul Biswas , Anil K. Ghosh

Joint modeling of a large number of variables often requires dimension reduction strategies that lead to structural assumptions of the underlying correlation matrix, such as equal pair-wise correlations within subsets of variables. The…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-07-26 Samuel Perreault , Johanna Neslehova , Thierry Duchesne

We propose a weak-identification-robust test for linear instrumental variable (IV) regressions with high-dimensional instruments, whose number is allowed to exceed the sample size. In addition, our test is robust to general error…

Econometrics · Economics 2025-07-01 Qu Feng , Sombut Jaidee , Wenjie Wang

In this article, we first establish the joint central limit theorem (CLT) for the extreme eigenvalues of the sample correlation matrix of high-dimensional random walks with cross-sectional dependence. We further investigate the asymptotic…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-08-05 Ruihan Liu , Chen Wang

We propose an independence test for random variables valued into metric spaces by using a test statistic obtained from appropriately centering and rescaling the squared Hilbert-Schmidt norm of the usual empirical estimator of normalized…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-11-11 Terence Kevin Manfoumbi Djonguet , Guy Martial Nkiet

Testing mutual independence for high-dimensional observations is a fundamental statistical challenge. Popular tests based on linear and simple rank correlations are known to be incapable of detecting non-linear, non-monotone relationships,…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-02-06 Mathias Drton , Fang Han , Hongjian Shi

High dimensional hypothesis test deals with models in which the number of parameters is significantly larger than the sample size. Existing literature develops a variety of individual tests. Some of them are sensitive to the dense and small…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-08-09 Cheng Zhou , Xinsheng Zhang , Wenxin Zhou , Han Liu

In this paper, we investigate score function-based tests to check the significance of an ultrahigh-dimensional sub-vector of the model coefficients when the nuisance parameter vector is also ultrahigh-dimensional in linear models. We first…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-11-12 Weichao Yang , Xu Guo , Lixing Zhu

This paper revisits the Lagrange multiplier type test for the null hypothesis of no cross-sectional dependence in large panel data models. We propose a unified test procedure and its power enhancement version, which show robustness for a…

Econometrics · Economics 2023-03-01 Zhenhong Huang , Zhaoyuan Li , Jianfeng Yao

We consider the problem of bounding large deviations for non-i.i.d. random variables that are allowed to have arbitrary dependencies. Previous works typically assumed a specific dependence structure, namely the existence of independent…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-11-06 Christoph H. Lampert , Liva Ralaivola , Alexander Zimin