Testing conditional independence via Rosenblatt transforms

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 37, Issue 6 B, 2009, Pages 4011-4045

  Song, Kyungchul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Conditional independence; Distribution free tests; Rosenblatt transforms; Wild bootstrap

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349817202     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/09-AOS704     Document Type: Article

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