independence: Fast Rank Tests
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Publication:133304
DOI10.48550/ARXIV.2010.09712arXiv2010.09712MaRDI QIDQ133304
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Publication date: 19 October 2020
Abstract: In 1948 Hoeffding devised a nonparametric test that detects dependence between two continuous random variables X and Y, based on the ranking of n paired samples (Xi,Yi). The computation of this commonly-used test statistic takes O(n log n) time. Hoeffding's test is consistent against any dependent probability density f(x,y), but can be fooled by other bivariate distributions with continuous margins. Variants of this test with full consistency have been considered by Blum, Kiefer, and Rosenblatt (1961), Yanagimoto (1970), Bergsma and Dassios (2010). The so far best known algorithms to compute these stronger independence tests have required quadratic time. Here we improve their run time to O(n log n), by elaborating on new methods for counting ranking patterns, from a recent paper by the author and Leng (SODA'21). Therefore, in all circumstances under which the classical Hoeffding independence test is applicable, we provide novel competitive algorithms for consistent testing against all alternatives. Our R package, independence, offers a highly optimized implementation of these rank-based tests. We demonstrate its capabilities on large-scale datasets.
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