mdc {EDMeasure}

Martingale Difference Correlation

Description

mdc measures conditional mean dependence of Y given X, where each contains one variable (univariate) or more variables (multivariate).

Usage

mdc(X, Y, center = "U")

Arguments

X

A vector, matrix or data frame, where rows represent samples, and columns represent variables.

Y

A vector, matrix or data frame, where rows represent samples, and columns represent variables.

center

The approach for centering, including

• U: U-centering which leads to an unbiased estimator;

• D: double-centering which leads to a biased estimator.

Value

mdc returns the squared martingale difference correlation of Y given X.

References

Shao, X., and Zhang, J. (2014). Martingale difference correlation and its use in high-dimensional variable screening. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 109(507), 1302-1318. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01621459.2014.887012.

Park, T., Shao, X., and Yao, S. (2015). Partial martingale difference correlation. Electronic Journal of Statistics, 9(1), 1492-1517. http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/15-EJS1047.

Examples

# X, Y are 10 x 2 matrices with 10 samples and 2 variables
X <- matrix(rnorm(10 * 2), 10, 2)
Y <- matrix(rnorm(10 * 2), 10, 2)

mdc(X, Y, center = "U")
mdc(X, Y, center = "D")