In statistics and in probability theory, partial distance correlation is a measure of statistical dependence between two random variables or two random vectors controlling for or removing the effect of one or more random variables.[1] This measure extends distance covariance and distance correlation[2] in a similar sense that partial correlation extends correlation. The random variables/vectors of interest take values in arbitrary, not necessarily equal dimension Euclidean space.
The sample partial distance covariance is defined in terms of orthogonal projections as follows.
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Category:Statistical dependence Category:Statistical distance measures Category:Theory of probability distributions Category:Multivariate statistics Category:Covariance and correlation