Energy statistics: A class of statistics based on distances

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 143, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1249-1272

  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

Distance correlation; Distance covariance; Energy distance; Goodness of fit; Multivariate independence

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878164846     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jspi.2013.03.018     Document Type: Review

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