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Activity Number: 405 - Nonparametric Testing in Complex Data Settings
Type: Contributed
Date/Time: Tuesday, August 1, 2017 : 2:00 PM to 3:50 PM
Sponsor: Section on Nonparametric Statistics
Abstract #323366
Title: Enhancements to Graph-Theoretic Approaches to the Multivariate Two-Sample Problem
Author(s): David Ruth* and Samuel Buttrey
Companies: US Navy and Naval Postgraduate School
Keywords: Multivariate statistics ; Multivariate two-sample problem ; Distribution-free test ; Graph-based test ; Nonparametric statistics ; Classification and regression trees
Abstract:

Graph-theoretic approaches to the multivariate two-sample problem have attracted great interest in recent years. Approaches to this problem typically involve using data to construct graphs weighted by dissimilarity and then employing some function of edge counts as a test statistic to detect a group difference. We provide insights regarding how dense such graphs should be in order to maximize test power, and present enhancements to existing edge-counting approaches in order to accommodate cases such as very large sample size or samples consisting of more than two groups.


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