Minimax optimal conditional independence testing

DOI10.1214/20-AOS2030zbMath1480.62077arXiv2001.03039OpenAlexW3203715578MaRDI QIDQ2054483

Matey Neykov, Sivaraman Balakrishnan, Larry Alan Wasserman

Publication date: 3 December 2021

Published in: The Annals of Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.03039

zbMATH Keywords

hypothesis testingconditional independenceminimax optimality

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonparametric hypothesis testing (62G10) Minimax procedures in statistical decision theory (62C20)

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Uses Software

• TETRAD
• GeneralisedCovarianceMeasure

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