A test for multivariate structure
Fred Huffer and
Cheolyong Park
Journal of Applied Statistics, 2000, vol. 27, issue 5, 633-650
Abstract:
We present a test for detecting 'multivariate structure' in data sets. This procedure consists of transforming the data to remove the correlations, then discretizing the data and, finally, studying the cell counts in the resulting contingency table. A formal test can be performed using the usual chi-squared test statistic. We give the limiting distribution of the chi-squared statistic and also present simulation results to examine the accuracy of this limiting distribution in finite samples. Several examples show that our procedure can detect a variety of different types of structure. Our examples include data with clustering, digitized speech data, and residuals from a fitted time series model. The chi-squared statistic can also be used as a test for multivariate normality.
Date: 2000
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