Distance Profile Embedding for Independence and Conditional Independence Testing of Random Objects
随机对象独立性与条件独立性检验的距离轮廓嵌入
Testing independence or conditional independence is fundamental to statistical inference, yet existing methods for non-Euclidean random objects often face a difficult trade-off between geometric flexibility and theoretical tractability. We introduce the Distance Profile Embedding (DPE), a novel representation that maps random objects from general metric spaces into a Hilbert space of square-integrable functions. We prove that this mapping is injective and preserves full…