Provides efficient implementations of weighted dependence measures and related asymptotic tests for independence. Implemented measures are the Pearson correlation, Spearman's rho, Kendall's tau, Blomqvist's beta, and Hoeffding's D; see, e.g., Nelsen (2006) <doi:10.1007/0-387-28678-0> and Hollander et al. (2015, ISBN:9780470387375).
copied from cf-staging / r-wdm