Equivalence of distance-based and RKHS-based statistics in hypothesis testing

We provide a unifying framework linking two classes of statistics used in two-sample and independence testing: on the one hand, the energy distances and distance covariances from the statistics literature; on the other, maximum mean discrepancies (MMD), that is, distances between embeddings of distr...

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Main Authors: Sejdinovic, D, Sriperumbudur, B, Gretton, A, Fukumizu, K
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: 2013