A simple measure of conditional dependence
一种简单的条件依赖度量
We propose a coefficient of conditional dependence between two random variables Y and Z given a set of other variables X1,…,Xp, based on an i.i.d. sample. The coefficient has a long list of desirable properties, the most important of which is that under absolutely no distributional assumptions, it converges to a limit in [0,1], where the limit is 0 if and only if Y and Z are conditionally independent given X1,…,Xp, and is 1 if and only if Y is equal to a measurable function…