Discussion of: Brownian distance covariance

Annals of Applied Statistics

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1285-1294

  Gretton, Arthur ^a   Fukumizu, Kenji ^a   Sriperumbudur, Bharath K ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Brownian distance covariance; Covariance operator; Independence testing; Kernel methods; Reproducing kernel Hilbert space

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862829001     PISSN: 19326157     EISSN: 19417330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/09-AOAS312E     Document Type: Article

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