The distance correlation t -test of independence in high dimension

Journal of Multivariate Analysis

Volumn 117, Issue , 2013, Pages 193-213

  Székely, Gábor J ^a,b   Rizzo, Maria L ^c  

^a NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^c BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

DCor; DCov; Distance correlation; Distance covariance; High dimension; Multivariate independence

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875118601     PISSN: 0047259X     EISSN: 10957243     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmva.2013.02.012     Document Type: Article

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