A Multivariate Two-Sample Test Based on the Concept of Minimum Energy
2003
We introduce a new statistical quantity the energy to test whether two samples originate from the same distributions. The energy is a simple logarithmic function of the distances of the observations in the variate space. The distribution of the test statistic is determined by a resampling method. The power of the energy test in one dimension was studied for a variety of dieren t test samples and compared to several nonparametric tests. In two and four dimensions a comparison was performed with the Friedman-Rafsky and nearest neighbor tests. The two-sample energy test is especially powerful in multidimensional applications.
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