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Journal Articles Applied Mathematics Letters Year : 2009

Using Data Compressors to Construct Rank Tests

Abstract

Nonparametric rank tests for homogeneity and component independence are proposed, which are based on data compressors. For homogeneity testing the idea is to compress the binary string obtained by ordering the two joint samples and writing 0 if the element is from the first sample and 1 if it is from the second sample and breaking ties by randomization (extension to the case of multiple samples is straightforward). $H_0$ should be rejected if the string is compressed (to a certain degree) and accepted otherwise. We show that such a test obtained from an ideal data compressor is valid against all alternatives. Component independence is reduced to homogeneity testing by constructing two samples, one of which is the first half of the original and the other is the second half with one of the components randomly permuted.
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inria-00269225 , version 1 (02-04-2008)

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Daniil Ryabko, Juergen Schmidhuber. Using Data Compressors to Construct Rank Tests. Applied Mathematics Letters, 2009, 22 (7), pp.1029-1032. ⟨inria-00269225⟩
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