="sd">    coming from an information-theoretic framework. It makes no assumptions</span>
<span class="sd">    about the parametric form of the dependencies by directly estimating the</span>
<span class="sd">    underlying joint density. The test here is based on directly estimating</span>
<span class="sd">    the joint distribution assuming symbolic input, combined with a</span>
<span class="sd">    local shuffle test to generate  the distribution under the null hypothesis of</span>
<span class="sd">    ind