On the lack of weak continuity of Chatterjee's correlation coefficient
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| author | Bücher, Axel Dette, Holger |
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| contents | Chatterjee's correlation coefficient has recently been proposed as a new association measure for bivariate random vectors that satisfies a number of desirable properties. Among these properties is the feature that the coefficient equals one if and only if one of the variables is a measurable function of the other. As already observed in Mikusinski, Sherwood and Taylor (Stochastica, 13(1):61-74, 1992), this property implies that Chatterjee's coefficient is not continuous with respect to weak convergence. We discuss a number of negative consequences for statistical inference. In particular, we show that asymptotic tests for stochastic independence based on Chatterjee's empirical correlation coefficient, or boosted versions thereof, have trivial power against certain alternatives for which the population coefficient is one. |
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| spellingShingle | On the lack of weak continuity of Chatterjee's correlation coefficient Bücher, Axel Dette, Holger Statistics Theory Chatterjee's correlation coefficient has recently been proposed as a new association measure for bivariate random vectors that satisfies a number of desirable properties. Among these properties is the feature that the coefficient equals one if and only if one of the variables is a measurable function of the other. As already observed in Mikusinski, Sherwood and Taylor (Stochastica, 13(1):61-74, 1992), this property implies that Chatterjee's coefficient is not continuous with respect to weak convergence. We discuss a number of negative consequences for statistical inference. In particular, we show that asymptotic tests for stochastic independence based on Chatterjee's empirical correlation coefficient, or boosted versions thereof, have trivial power against certain alternatives for which the population coefficient is one. |
| title | On the lack of weak continuity of Chatterjee's correlation coefficient |
| topic | Statistics Theory |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.11418 |