Testing Independence and Conditional Independence in High Dimensions via Coordinatewise Gaussianization
通过逐坐标高斯化检验高维独立性与条件独立性
We propose new statistical tests, in high-dimensional settings, for testing the independence of two random vectors and their conditional independence given a third random vector. The key idea is simple, i.e., we first transform each component variable to the standard normal via its marginal empirical distribution, and we then test for independence and conditional independence of the transformed random vectors using appropriate L∞-type test statistics. While we are testing…