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The goal of package IVCor
is to provide an easy way to
implement the proposed methods in Xiong et al. (2025), which include a
new robust correlation and its use in hypothesis test.
Here are examples showing how to use main functions in package
IVCor
.
library("IVCor")
library("mvtnorm")
#> Warning: package 'mvtnorm' was built under R version 4.3.3
###The new IVC measure###
# linear model
n=100
x=rnorm(n)
y=3*x+rnorm(n)
IVC(y,x,K=5,type="linear")
#> [1] 0.5660404
# nonlinear model
n=100
p=3
x=matrix(NA,nrow=n,ncol=p)
for(i in 1:p){
x[,i]=rnorm(n)
}
y=cos(x[,1]+x[,2])+x[,3]^2+rnorm(n)
IVC(y,x,K=5,type="nonlinear")
#> [1] 0.3564824
###Local linear estimation of IVC###
n=100
x=rnorm(n)
y=exp(x)+rnorm(n)
IVCLLQ(y,x,K=4)
#> [1] 0.2819712
###IVC measure with discrete response###
n=100
y=sample(rep(1:3), n, replace = TRUE, prob = c(1/3,1/3,1/3))
x=c()
for(i in 1:n){
x[i]=rnorm(1,mean=2*y[i],sd=1)
}
IVCCA(y,x,K=5)
#> [1] 0.4753778
###IVC for interval independence###
n=100
p=3
pho1=0.5
mean_x=rep(0,p)
sigma_x=matrix(NA,nrow = p,ncol = p)
for (i in 1:p) {
for (j in 1:p) {
sigma_x[i,j]=pho1^(abs(i-j))
}
}
x=rmvnorm(n, mean = mean_x, sigma = sigma_x,method = "chol")
y=2*(x[,1]+x[,2]+x[,3])+rnorm(n)
IVC_Interval(y,x,K=5,tau1=0.2,tau2=0.8,type="linear")
#> [1] 0.7119029
###IVC based hypothesis test###
n=100
p=4
x=matrix(NA,nrow=n,ncol=p)
for(i in 1:p){
x[,i]=runif(n,0,1)
}
y=3*ifelse(x[,1]>0.5,1,0)*x[,2]+3*cos(x[,3])^2*x[,1]+3*(x[,4]^2-1)*x[,1]+rnorm(n)
IVCT(y,x,K=5,num_per=20,type = "nonlinear")
#> [1] 0
###Critical values for IVC based hypothesis test###
IVC_crit(N=500,realizations=100)
#> 90% 95% 99%
#> 2.294633 2.752908 4.151851
###IVC based hypothesis test for discrete response###
n=100
x=runif(n,0,1)
y=sample(rep(1:3), n, replace = TRUE, prob = c(1/3,1/3,1/3))
IVCCAT(y,x,K=5,num_per=20,type = "fixed")
#> [1] 0.85
###Critical values for IVC based hypothesis test with discrete response###
IVCCA_crit(R=5,N=500,realizations=100)
#> 90% 95% 99%
#> 7.055788 7.927029 12.548679
###IVC based interval independence hypothesis test###
n=100
p=3
pho1=0.5
mean_x=rep(0,p)
sigma_x=matrix(NA,nrow = p,ncol = p)
for (i in 1:p) {
for (j in 1:p) {
sigma_x[i,j]=pho1^(abs(i-j))
}
}
x=rmvnorm(n, mean = mean_x, sigma = sigma_x,method = "chol")
y=rnorm(n)
IVCT_Interval(y,x,tau1=0.5,tau2=0.75,K=5,num_per=20,type = "linear")
#> [1] 0.8
n=100
x_til=runif(n,min=-1,max=1)
y_til=rnorm(n)
epsilon=rnorm(n)
x=x_til+2*epsilon*ifelse(x_til<=-0.5&y_til<=-0.675,1,0)
y=y_til+2*epsilon*ifelse(x_til<=-0.5&y_til<=-0.675,1,0)
IVCT_Interval(y,x,tau1=0.2,tau2=0.8,K=5,num_per=20,type = "nonlinear")
#> [1] 0
Wei Xiong, Han Pan, Hengjian Cui. (2025) “Measuring and Testing Dependence by a Robust Integrated Variance Correlation.”
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