Arguments
- x
numeric vector
- y
numeric vector
Value
Returns a numeric value: the distance correlation between x and y.
Examples
if (FALSE) {
set.seed(1)
x < -rnorm(1000)
y < -x ^ 2
dcor(x, y) # dcor shows dependence between x and y
cor(x, y) # cor does not detect any depencence due to nonlinearity
}