Correlation Curves: Measures of Association as Functions of Covariate Values
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For experiments where the strength of association between a response variable $Y$ and a covariate $X$ is different over different regions of values for the covariate $X$, we propose local nonparametric dependence functions which measure the strength of association between $Y$ and $X$ as a function of $X = x$. Our dependence functions are extensions of Galton's idea of strength of co-relation from the bivariate normal case to the nonparametric case. In particular, a…