Motivations and main challenge Experiments

A Relative Dependency Test

Wacha BOUNLIPHONE, Arthur GRETTON, ArthurTENENHAUS, Matthew BLASCHKO

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Motivations

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Motivations

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Main challenge

Main Challenge

To develop new statistical method to determine whether adependency is stronger between one pair of measurements oranother.

Dependent(Source,Target1) > Dependent(Source,Target2) ?

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Verification and calibration

Illustration of synthetic datasets

In this dataset, we can control the relative degree of functionaldependency between variates.

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Pediatric high-grade gliomas (pHGG)

Brain tumors localisation

pHGG have different genetics origins depending on the location ofthe tumor in the brain. The goal is to identify the mechanismsresponsible of the tumor.

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