Quadratic distances on probabilities: A unified foundation

DOI10.1214/009053607000000956zbMath1133.62001arXiv0804.0991OpenAlexW3102178621MaRDI QIDQ2426631

Ke Yang, Bruce G. Lindsay, Marianthi Markatou, Surajit Ray, Shu-Chuan (Grace) Chen

Publication date: 23 April 2008

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0804.0991

zbMATH Keywords

spectral decompositiongoodness of fitmodel assessmenthigh dimensionsdegrees of freedomquadratic distanceHilbert-Schmidt kerneldiffusion kernel

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonparametric hypothesis testing (62G10) Asymptotic distribution theory in statistics (62E20) Characterization and structure theory for multivariate probability distributions; copulas (62H05) Foundations and philosophical topics in statistics (62A01)

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