Hi all,
I'm writing to you to introduce our new package, copent [6]. This package
estimates copula entropy, a new mathematical concept for multivariate
statistical independence measure and testing [1]. The estimating method is
nonparametric and can be applied to any cases without making assumptions.
The package has been used for
* association discovery [2], in which copula entropy is an association
measure
shown to be better than correlation coeffients,
* structure learning [3],
* variable selection [4], and
* causal discovery [5] by estimating transfer entropy.
CRAN: https://cran.r-project.org/package=copent
GITHUB: https://github.com/majianthu/copent/
Hope it helpful for you. Any comments and suggestions are welcome.
Best Regards,
MA Jian
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References
1. Ma Jian, Sun Zengqi. Mutual information is copula entropy. Tsinghua Science
& Technology, 2011, 16(1): 51-54. See also arXiv preprint, arXiv:0808.0845,
2008.
2. Ma Jian. Discovering Association with Copula Entropy. arXiv preprint
arXiv:1907.12268, 2019.
3. Ma Jian, Sun Zengqi. Dependence Structure Estimation via Copula. arXiv
preprint arXiv:0804.4451v2, 2019.
4. Ma Jian. Variable Selection with Copula Entropy. arXiv preprint
arXiv:1910.12389, 2019.
5. Ma Jian. Estimating Transfer Entropy via Copula Entropy. arXiv preprint
arXiv:1910.04375, 2019.
6. Ma Jian. copent: Estimating Copula Entropy in R. arXiv preprint,
arXiv:2005.14025, 2020.