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Elementary proofs of several results on false discovery rate

Statistics Theory 2025-07-15 v3 Methodology Statistics Theory

Abstract

We collect self-contained elementary proofs of four results in the literature on the false discovery rate of the Benjamini-Hochberg (BH) procedure for independent or positive-regression dependent p-values, the Benjamini-Yekutieli correction for arbitrarily dependent p-values, and the e-BH procedure for arbitrarily dependent e-values. As a corollary, the above proofs also lead to some inequalities of Simes and Hommel.

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@article{arxiv.2201.09350,
  title  = {Elementary proofs of several results on false discovery rate},
  author = {Ruodu Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2201.09350},
  year   = {2025}
}