Title
Generalizing distance covariance to measure and test multivariate mutual dependence via complete and incomplete V-statistics.
Abstract
We propose three new measures of mutual dependence between multiple random vectors. Each measure is zero if and only if the random vectors are mutually independent. The first generalizes distance covariance from pairwise dependence to mutual dependence, while the other two measures are sums of squared distance covariances. The proposed measures share similar properties and asymptotic distributions with distance covariance, and capture non-linear and non-monotone mutual dependence between the random vectors. Inspired by complete and incomplete V-statistics, we define empirical and simplified empirical measures as a trade-off between the complexity and statistical power when testing mutual independence. The implementation of corresponding tests is demonstrated by both simulation results and real data examples.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1016/j.jmva.2018.08.006
Journal of Multivariate Analysis
Keywords
Field
DocType
62G10,62H20,62G20,60E10
Pairwise comparison,Multivariate statistics,Generalization,Characteristic function (probability theory),Multivariate analysis,Statistics,Statistical power,Mathematics,Independence (probability theory),Covariance
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
168
0047-259X
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
8
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ze Jin101.35
David S. Matteson2135.08