Sign tests for weak principal directions

DOI10.3150/20-BEJ1213zbMath1461.62090arXiv1812.09367OpenAlexW3081255928MaRDI QIDQ2203629

Davy Paindaveine, Thomas Verdebout, Julien Remy

Publication date: 7 October 2020

Published in: Bernoulli (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.09367

zbMATH Keywords

principal component analysislocal asymptotic normalitysign testsweak identifiabilityLe Cam's asymptotic theory of statistical experiments

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Factor analysis and principal components; correspondence analysis (62H25) Nonparametric hypothesis testing (62G10) Asymptotic distribution theory in statistics (62E20) Theory of statistical experiments (62B15)

Uses Software

• R
• MNM
• mixture
• uskewFactors

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