Local permutation tests for conditional independence

DOI10.1214/22-AOS2233MaRDI QIDQ2112818

Ilmun Kim, Sivaraman Balakrishnan, Matey Neykov, Larry Alan Wasserman

Publication date: 12 January 2023

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.11666

zbMATH Keywords

conditional independencepermutation testminimax optimality

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonparametric hypothesis testing (62G10) Measures of association (correlation, canonical correlation, etc.) (62H20) Minimax procedures in statistical decision theory (62C20) Nonparametric statistical resampling methods (62G09)

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