Equivalence of distance-based and RKHS-based statistics in hypothesis testing

DOI10.1214/13-AOS1140zbMATH Open1281.62117arXiv1207.6076MaRDI QIDQ85652FDOQ85652

Authors: Dino Sejdinovic, Bharath Sriperumbudur, Arthur Gretton, Kenji Fukumizu, Dino Sejdinovic, Bharath K. Sriperumbudur, Arthur Gretton, Kenji Fukumizu 

Publication date: 1 October 2013

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

Abstract: We provide a unifying framework linking two classes of statistics used in two-sample and independence testing: on the one hand, the energy distances and distance covariances from the statistics literature; on the other, maximum mean discrepancies (MMD), that is, distances between embeddings of distributions to reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces (RKHS), as established in machine learning. In the case where the energy distance is computed with a semimetric of negative type, a positive definite kernel, termed distance kernel, may be defined such that the MMD corresponds exactly to the energy distance. Conversely, for any positive definite kernel, we can interpret the MMD as energy distance with respect to some negative-type semimetric. This equivalence readily extends to distance covariance using kernels on the product space. We determine the class of probability distributions for which the test statistics are consistent against all alternatives. Finally, we investigate the performance of the family of distance kernels in two-sample and independence tests: we show in particular that the energy distance most commonly employed in statistics is just one member of a parametric family of kernels, and that other choices from this family can yield more powerful tests.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1207.6076

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zbMATH Keywords

distance covarianceindependence testingreproducing kernel Hilbert spacestwo-sample testing

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonparametric hypothesis testing (62G10) Learning and adaptive systems in artificial intelligence (68T05) Applications of functional analysis in probability theory and statistics (46N30) Computational learning theory (68Q32)

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