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Yongli Sang

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preprint2026arXiv

Comparing Two Categorical Gini Correlations with Applications to Classification Problems

This article proposes an inferential framework for comparing predictor importance in classification problems with categorical response variables. The approach is based on the categorical Gini correlation (CGC) proposed by Dang et al. (2020), a measure of dependence between numerical predictors and categorical outcomes. Predictor importance is evaluated by testing differences in CGCs across competing predictor groups. The proposed methodology accommodates predictors of arbitrary and unequal dimensions and allows for dependence between predictor groups. Asymptotic normality of the test statistic is established under both the null and alternative hypotheses, and the resulting test is shown to be consistent. In addition to deriving the asymptotic distribution, a nonparametric bootstrap procedure is developed as an alternative approach to inference. Simulation studies, along with applications to breast cancer and human activity recognition datasets, demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed framework.

preprint2016arXiv

Memory properties of transformations of linear processes

In this paper, we study the memory properties of transformations of linear processes. Dittmann and Granger (2002) studied the polynomial transformations of Gaussian FARIMA(0,d,0) processes by applying the orthonormality of the Hermite polynomials under the measure for the standard normal distribution. Nevertheless, the orthogonality does not hold for transformations of non-Gaussian linear processes. Instead, we use the decomposition developed by Ho and Hsing (1996, 1997) to study the memory properties of nonlinear transformations of linear processes, which include the FARIMA(p,d,q) processes, and obtain consistent results as in the Gaussian case. In particular, for stationary processes, the transformations of short-memory time series still have short-memory and the transformation of long-memory time series may have different weaker memory parameters which depend on the power rank of the transformation. On the other hand, the memory properties of transformations of non-stationary time series may not depend on the power ranks of the transformations. This study has application in econometrics and financial data analysis when the time series observations have non-Gaussian heavy tails. As an example, the memory properties of call option processes at different strike prices are discussed in details.

preprint2016arXiv

Symmetric Gini Covariance and Correlation

Standard Gini covariance and Gini correlation play important roles in measuring the dependence of random variables with heavy tails. However, the asymmetry brings a substantial difficulty in interpretation. In this paper, we propose a symmetric Gini-type covariance and a symmetric Gini correlation ( $ρ_g$ ) based on the joint rank function. The proposed correlation $ρ_g$ is more robust than the Pearson correlation but less robust than the Kendall's $τ$ correlation. We establish the relationship between $ρ_g$ and the linear correlation $ρ$ for a class of random vectors in the family of elliptical distributions, which allows us to estimate $ρ$ based on estimation of $ρ_g$ . The asymptotic normality of the resulting estimators of $ρ$ are studied through two approaches: one from influence function and the other from U-statistics and the delta method. We compare asymptotic efficiencies of linear correlation estimators based on the symmetric Gini, regular Gini, Pearson and Kendall's $τ$ under various distributions. In addition to reasonably balancing between robustness and efficiency, the proposed measure $ρ_g$ demonstrates superior finite sample performance, which makes it attractive in applications.

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