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distance covariance and correlation

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Description

Just wanted to park your gist here since I came across it this week, looking for similar. I don't know if it's something we want to include or if it belongs in scipy or scikit-learn (I don't think it's already there?).

https://gist.github.com/josef-pkt/2938402

There's a O(n) memory and O(n*log(n)) algorithm here that wouldn't be too hard to implement (and put into Cython)

http://arxiv.org/pdf/1410.1503v1.pdf

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Tech stack
python, scikit-learn
Domain
analytics, data
Issue type
Feature
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5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
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Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
20/100

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