Research articles

My first research papers are underway, currently navigating the editorial process of academic publishing with a couple of them. Please check out my arXiv profile for the latest version of my manuscripts.

1. Castro-Prado, F., González-Manteiga, W., Costas, J., Facal, F. and Edelmann. D. (2026). Tests for categorical data beyond Pearson: A distance covariance and energy distance approach. [Accepted at the Biometrical Journal. To appear.] [arXiv:2403.12711] [software]

2. Edelmann, D., Castro-Prado, F., and Goeman, J. J. (2026+). A generalized distance covariance framework for genome-wide association studies. [Submitted to a journal of the area of statistics.] [arXiv:2501.02403] [software]

3. Castro-Prado, F., Costas, J., Edelmann, D., González-Manteiga, W. and Penas, D. R. (2026). Testing for genetic interaction with distance correlation. [Accepted at the Biometrical Journal. To appear.] [arXiv:2012.05285] [software]

4. Castro-Prado, F. and González-Manteiga, W. (2020). Nonparametric independence tests in metric spaces: What is known and what is not. [Technical report.] [arXiv:2009.14150]

My PhD dissertation is also available online:

5. Castro-Prado, F. (2024). Nonparametric independence tests in high-dimensional settings, with applications to the genetics of complex disease. [arXiv:2407.19624] [software] [university repository] [Dialnet: 335817] [Teseo: O855097]

Non-research publications

6. Castro-Prado, F. and Temperán, G. (2019). Probability II: Game and simulation. Journal of the Galician Society of Statistics (ISSN 1695-7083) 52 (2), 2–5. [open-access journal site]

Slides from my talks