An extremal problem with applications to the problem of testing multivariate independence

DOI10.1080/10485252.2011.603831MaRDI QIDQ2892913zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors Natalia Stepanova, A. I. Nazarov

Publication date 25 June 2012

Published in Journal of Nonparametric Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1012.0837

zbMATH Keywords

boundary-value problemGreen functionlocal asymptotic optimalityasymptotic efficiency of test statistics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonparametric hypothesis testing (62G10) Asymptotic properties of nonparametric inference (62G20) Hypothesis testing in multivariate analysis (62H15) Measures of association (correlation, canonical correlation, etc.) (62H20) PDEs in connection with statistics (35Q62)

Abstract: Some problems of statistics can be reduced to extremal problems of minimizing functionals of smooth functions defined on the cube $[0,1{]}^m$, $mgeq2$. In this paper, we study a class of extremal problems that is closely connected to the problem of testing multivariate independence. By solving the extremal problem, we provide a unified approach to establishing weak convergence for a wide class of empirical processes which emerge in connection with testing independence. The use of our result is also illustrated by describing the domain of local asymptotic optimality of some nonparametric tests of independence.

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