条件独立性与条件回归独立性

引入随机变量条件独立、强条件回归独立、逐对条件回归独立、连续条件回归独立、邻对条件回归独立、累积条件回归独立诸定义,证明它们之间的等价关系.

复随机变量的条件独立性与条件回归独立性

将实随机变量的条件独立性与条件回归独立性的研究推广到复随机变量,讨论了复随机变量的条件独立性、条件回归独立性及强条件独立的关系,得到了三者等价的几个充分必要条件.

A note on testing conditional independence for social network analysis

In social network analysis, logistic regression models have been widely used to establish the relationship between the response variable and covariates. However, such models often require the network relationships to be mutually independent, after controlling for a set of covariates. To assess the validity of this assumption,we propose test statistics, under the logistic regression setting, for three important social network drivers. They are, respectively, reciprocity, centrality, and transitivity. The asymptotic distributions of those test statistics are obtained. Extensive simulation studies are also presented to demonstrate their finite sample performance and usefulness.