Cookies?
Library Header Image
LSE Research Online LSE Library Services

A consistent test of independence based on a sign covariance related to Kendall's tau

Bergsma, Wicher ORCID: 0000-0002-2422-2359 and Dassios, Angelos ORCID: 0000-0002-3968-2366 (2014) A consistent test of independence based on a sign covariance related to Kendall's tau. Bernoulli, 20 (2). pp. 1006-1028. ISSN 1350-7265

[img]
Preview
PDF - Published Version
Download (334kB) | Preview

Identification Number: 10.3150/13-BEJ514

Abstract

The most popular ways to test for independence of two ordinal random variables are by means of Kendall's tau and Spearman's rho. However, such tests are not consistent, only having power for alternatives with `monotonic' association. In this paper we introduce a natural extension of Kendall's tau, called t*, which is nonnegative and zero if and only if independence holds, thus leading to a consistent independence test. Furthermore, normalization gives a rank correlation which can be used as a measure of dependence, taking values between zero and one. A comparison with alternative measures of dependence for ordinal random variables is given, and it is shown that, in a well-defined sense, is the simplest, similarly to Kendall's tau being the simplest of ordinal measures of monotone association. Simulation studies show our test compares well with the alternatives in terms of average p-values

Item Type: Article
Official URL: http://www.bernoulli-society.org/index.php/publica...
Additional Information: © 2014 ISI/BS
Divisions: Statistics
Subjects: Q Science > QA Mathematics
Date Deposited: 19 Nov 2013 16:52
Last Modified: 09 Oct 2024 22:42
URI: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/54469

Actions (login required)

View Item View Item

Downloads

Downloads per month over past year

View more statistics