Local permutation tests for conditional independence

DOI10.1214/22-AOS2233MaRDI QIDQ2112818zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Ilmun Kim, Matey Neykov, Sivaraman Balakrishnan, Larry 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, https://projecteuclid.org/journals/annals-of-statistics/volume-50/issue-6/Local-permutation-tests-for-conditional-independence/10.1214/22-AOS2233.full

zbMATH Keywords

minimax optimalitypermutation testconditional independence

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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