Partial distance correlation with methods for dissimilarities

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 2382-2412

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

^a NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION   (United States)

^b BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dissimilarity; Energy statistics; Independence; Multivariate; Partial distance correlation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84908193546     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: 21688966     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/14-AOS1255     Document Type: Article

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