Detection of sparse positive dependence

DOI10.1214/19-EJS1675zbMath1435.62224arXiv1811.07105OpenAlexW3003522222MaRDI QIDQ2293723

Ery Arias-Castro, Nicolas Verzelen, Rong Huang

Publication date: 5 February 2020

Published in: Electronic Journal of Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.07105

zbMATH Keywords

positive dependencerank testshigher criticismrare effectsGaussian mixture copula model

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonparametric hypothesis testing (62G10) Asymptotic properties of nonparametric inference (62G20) Classification and discrimination; cluster analysis (statistical aspects) (62H30) Characterization and structure theory for multivariate probability distributions; copulas (62H05)

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Uses Software

• idr
• GMCM

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