xi correlation method adapted for python

xicor is an implementation of the "xi" correlation metric described in Chatterjee, S. (2019, September 22). A new coefficient of correlation. arxiv.org/abs/1909.10140. It is based off the R code mentioned in the paper: https://statweb.stanford.edu/~souravc/xi.R

• Free software: MIT license
• Documentation: https://czbiohub.github.io/xicor

The package can be installed from PyPI using pip here:

pip install xicor

To install this code and play around with the code locally, clone this github repository and use pip to install:

git clone https://github.com/czbiohub/xicor.git
cd xicor

# The "." means "install *this*, the folder where I am now"
pip install .
# or you could install using
python setup.py install

from xicor.xicor import Xi
xi_obj = Xi([1, 2, 3], [1, 2, 3])
correlation = xi_obj.correlation
pvals = xi_obj.pval_asymptotic(ties=False, nperm=1000)