Re: [UAI] Measures of dependence between random variables

From: Scott Ferson (scott@ramas.com)
Date: Thu May 25 2000 - 09:37:01 PDT

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    An encyclopedic but very readable reference is

    Hutchinson, T.P. and C.D. Lai. 1990. Continuous
    Bivariate Distributions, Emphasising Applications.
    Rumsby Scientific Publishing, Adelaide, South
    Australia.

    Scott Ferson <scott@ramas.com>
    Applied Biomathematics
    631-751-4350, fax -3435

    "Prakash P. Shenoy" wrote:

    > Dear UAI colleagues,
    >
    > Could someone please point me to references on different measures of
    > dependence between random variables? I am familiar with
    > covariance/correlation coefficient that measures linear dependence between
    > variables. What else is out there that is being used by the Bayes net
    > learning community? Thanks in advance for the pointers.
    >
    > Prakash Shenoy
    > <pshenoy@ukans.edu>



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