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<p><strong>FORD</strong> closely follows the structure of <strong>FOCI</strong> <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/27170947"><em>A Simple Measure Of Conditional Dependence</em></a>, but replaces the core dependence measure with <strong>irdc</strong>.</p>
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<h1 id="chp:algorithm">Algorithm</h1>
<p>Let \(Y\) be the response variable and \(\mathbf{X} = (X_1, \dots, X_p)\) the predictor variables. Given \(n\) i.i.d. samples of \((Y, \mathbf{X})\), FORD proceeds as follows:</p>
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