Recently S. D. Cohen resolved a conjecture of Chowla and Zassenhaus (1968) in the affirmative by showing that, if f(x) and g(x) are integral polynomials of degree n ≥ 2 and p is a prime exceeding (n2 ...

The Annals of Statistics, Vol. 43, No. 6 (December 2015), pp. 2537-2564 (28 pages) Motivated by a neuroscience question about synchrony detection in spike train analysis, we deal with the independence ...