On the High-dimensional Power of Linear-time Kernel Two-Sample Testing under Mean-difference Alternatives

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Ramdas, Aaditya; Reddi, Sashank J.; Poczos, Barnabas; Singh, Aarti; Wasserman, Larry;
(2014)
  • Subject: Mathematics - Statistics Theory | Statistics - Machine Learning | Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence | Computer Science - Information Theory | Computer Science - Learning
Nonparametric two sample testing deals with the question of consistently deciding if two distributions are different, given samples from both, without making any parametric assumptions about the form of the distributions. The current literature is split into two kinds o... View more
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