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Activity Number: 115
Type: Contributed
Date/Time: Monday, August 7, 2006 : 8:30 AM to 10:20 AM
Sponsor: General Methodology
Abstract - #306366
Title: A Test of Independence in Two-Way Contingency Tables Based on Maximal Correlation
Author(s): Deniz Yenigun*+ and Gabor Szekely
Companies: Bowling Green State University and Bowling Green State University
Address: Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Bowling Green, OH, 43403,
Keywords: maximal correlation ; tests of independence
Abstract:

The maximal correlation has several attractive properties for measuring dependence between two random variables. However, except for a few special cases, it is hard to evaluate the maximal correlation explicitly. In case of two-way contingency tables, we discuss a procedure for estimating the maximal correlation which we use for constructing a test of independence. We compare this test with other existing tests of independence for several alternatives.

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