Measuring non-linear dependence for two random variables distributed along a curve

Statistics and Computing

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 255-269

  Delicado, Pedro ^a   Smrekar, Marcelo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Dependence measures; Independence tests; Linearity tests; Principal curves; R nyi's axioms; Similarity measures for pairs of variables

Indexed keywords

EID: 67650669052     PISSN: 09603174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11222-008-9090-y     Document Type: Article

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