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Pearson's correlation is an important summary measure of the amount of dependence between two variables. It is natural to want to generalise the concept of correlation as a single number that measures the inter-relatedness of three or more…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-03-06 Benjamin M. Taylor

Distance correlation coefficient (DCC) can be used to identify new associations and correlations between multiple variables. The distance correlation coefficient applies to variables of any dimension, can be used to determine smaller sets…

Statistical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2023-01-13 J. E. Salgado-Hernández , Manan Vyas

We introduce a novel measure of dependence that captures the extent to which a random variable $Y$ is determined by a random vector $X$. The measure equals zero precisely when $Y$ and $X$ are independent, and it attains one exactly when $Y$…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-01-14 Mona Azadkia , Pouya Roudaki

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

Distance correlation has become an increasingly popular tool for detecting the nonlinear dependence between a pair of potentially high-dimensional random vectors. Most existing works have explored its asymptotic distributions under the null…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-10-06 Lan Gao , Yingying Fan , Jinchi Lv , Qi-Man Shao

High dimensional time series datasets are becoming increasingly common in various fields such as economics, finance, meteorology, and neuroscience. Given this ubiquity of time series data, it is surprising that very few works on variable…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-04-17 Kashif Yousuf , Yang Feng

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

Distance correlation has gained much recent attention in the data science community: the sample statistic is straightforward to compute and asymptotically equals zero if and only if independence, making it an ideal choice to discover any…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-06-27 Cencheng Shen , Sambit Panda , Joshua T. Vogelstein

Distance covariance and distance correlation have long been regarded as natural measures of dependence between two random vectors, and have been used in a variety of situations for testing independence. Despite their popularity, the…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-03-31 Hallin Marc , Davide La Vecchia , Hang Liu , Xinyi Xu

Chatterjee (2021)'s ingenious approach to estimating a measure of dependence first proposed by Dette et al. (2013) based on simple rank statistics has quickly caught attention. This measure of dependence has the unusual property of being…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-08-17 Zhexiao Lin , Fang Han

This paper investigates the utilization of maximum and average distance correlations for multivariate independence testing. We characterize their consistency properties in high-dimensional settings with respect to the number of marginally…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-06-11 Cencheng Shen , Yuexiao Dong

This article proposes a new index for quantifying the degree of dependence between random vectors. The index takes values in [0,1] and equals zero if and only if the random vectors are sub-independent. Unlike mere uncorrelatedness,…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Chuancun yin

Similarity distance measure between two trajectories is an essential tool to understand patterns in motion, for example, in Human-Robot Interaction or Imitation Learning. The problem has been faced in many fields, from Signal Processing,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-07-08 Julen Urain , Jan Peters

To quantify the dependence between two random vectors of possibly different dimensions, we propose to rely on the properties of the 2-Wasserstein distance. We first propose two coefficients that are based on the Wasserstein distance between…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-10-19 Gilles Mordant , Johan Segers

Cooperative localization is a promising solution to improve the accuracy and overcome the shortcomings of GNSS. Cooperation is often achieved by measuring the distance between users. To optimally integrate a distance measurement between two…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-12 Colin Cros , Pierre-Olivier Amblard , Christophe Prieur , Jean-François da Rocha

A classical statistical inequality is used to show that the distance covariance of two bounded random vectors is bounded from above by a simple function of the dimensionality and the bounds of the random vectors. Two special cases that…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-06-30 John Çamkıran

Multiple correlation is a fundamental concept with broad applications. The classical multiple correlation coefficient is developed to assess how strongly a dependent variable is associated with a linear combination of independent variables.…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-04-23 Kai Yang , Yuhong Zhou , Wei Xu , Kirsten Beyer

A coefficient is introduced that quantifies the extent of separation of a random variable $Y$ relative to a number of variables $\mathbf{X} = (X_1, \dots, X_p)$ by skillfully assessing the sensitivity of the relative effects of the…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-03-27 Sebastian Fuchs , Carsten Limbach , Patrick B. Langthaler

Multivariate correlation analysis plays an important role in various fields such as statistics, economics, and big data analytics. In this paper, we propose a pair of measures, the unsigned correlation coefficient (UCC) and the unsigned…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-01-28 Jianji Wang , Nanning Zheng

A finite-support constraint on the parameter space is used to derive a lower bound on the error of an estimator of the correlation coefficient in the bivariate exponential distribution. The bound is then exploited to examine optimality of…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-02-13 W. J. Szajnowski