On the empirical multilinear copula process for count data

DOI10.3150/13-BEJ524zbMATH Open1365.62221arXiv1407.1200OpenAlexW3104996773MaRDI QIDQ396007FDOQ396007

Authors: Johanna Nešlehová, Christian Genest, Bruno Rémillard 

Publication date: 8 August 2014

Published in: Bernoulli (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Continuation refers to the operation by which the cumulative distribution function of a discontinuous random vector is made continuous through multilinear interpolation. The copula that results from the application of this technique to the classical empirical copula is either called the multilinear or the checkerboard copula. As shown by Genest and Nev{s}lehov'{a} (Astin Bull. 37 (2007) 475-515) and Nev{s}lehov'{a} (J. Multivariate Anal. 98 (2007) 544-567), this copula plays a central role in characterizing dependence concepts in discrete random vectors. In this paper, the authors establish the asymptotic behavior of the empirical process associated with the multilinear copula based on $d$-variate count data. This empirical process does not generally converge in law on the space $mathcalC([0,1{]}^d)$ of continuous functions on $[0,1{]}^d$, equipped with the uniform norm. However, the authors show that the process converges in $mathcalC(K)$ for any compact $KsubsetmathcalO$, where $mathcalO$ is a dense open subset of $[0,1{]}^d$, whose complement is the Cartesian product of the ranges of the marginal distribution functions. This result is sufficient to deduce the weak limit of many functionals of the process, including classical statistics for monotone trend. It also leads to a powerful and consistent test of independence which is applicable even to sparse contingency tables whose dimension is sample size dependent.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1407.1200

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zbMATH Keywords

contingency tablecount dataempirical processKendall's tauSpearman's rhotest of independencecheckerboard copulamultilinear extension copulamid-ranksSpearsman's rho

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonparametric hypothesis testing (62G10) Asymptotic properties of nonparametric inference (62G20) Contingency tables (62H17) Measures of association (correlation, canonical correlation, etc.) (62H20) Central limit and other weak theorems (60F05) Functional limit theorems; invariance principles (60F17)

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