Multivariate nonparametric tests of independence

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 100, Issue 471, 2005, Pages 916-925

  Taskinen, Sara ^a   Oja, Hannu ^b   Randles, Ronald H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TAMPERE   (Finland)

^c University of Florida ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Affine invariance; Kendall's tau; Pitman efficiency; Quadrant test; Robustness; Spearman's rho

Indexed keywords

EID: 18844440074     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/016214505000000097     Document Type: Review

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