Tie-corrected versions of Spearman’s rho are often used to measure the dependence in a pair of non-continuous random variables. Multivariate extensions of this coefficient, and estimators thereof, have recently been proposed by Quessy (2009a) [23] and Mesfioui and Quessy (2010) [19]....

Deheuvels proposed a rank test of independence based on a Cramer-von Mises functional of the empirical copula process. Using a general result on the asymptotic distribution of this process under sequences of contiguous alternatives, the local power curve of Deheuvels' test is computed in the...

LetZ1, ..., Znbe a random sample of sizen[greater-or-equal, slanted]2 from ad-variate continuous distribution functionH, and letVi, nstand for the proportion of observationsZj,j[not equal to]i, such thatZj[less-than-or-equals, slant]Zicomponentwise. The purpose of this paper is to...

This paper presents nonparametric tests of independence that can be used to test the independence of p random variables, serial independence for time series, or residuals data. These tests are shown to generalize the classical portmanteau statistics. Applications to both time series and...

We develop a test of equality between two dependence structures estimated through empirical copulas. We provide inference for independent or paired samples. The multiplier central limit theorem is used for calculating p-values of the Cramer-von Mises test statistic. Finite sample properties are...