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This paper investigates an open issue related to false discovery rate (FDR) control of step-up-down (SUD) multiple testing procedures. It has been established in earlier literature that for this type of procedure, under some broad…

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This research deals with massive multiple hypothesis testing. First regarding multiple tests as an estimation problem under a proper population model, an error measurement called Erroneous Rejection Ratio (ERR) is introduced and related to…

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In many statistical problems the hypotheses are naturally divided into groups, and the investigators are interested to perform group-level inference, possibly along with inference on individual hypotheses. We consider the goal of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-05-20 Marina Bogomolov

Controlling False Discovery Rate (FDR) while leveraging the side information of multiple hypothesis testing is an emerging research topic in modern data science. Existing methods rely on the test-level covariates while ignoring metrics…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-10-10 Lin Qiu , Nils Murrugarra-Llerena , Vítor Silva , Lin Lin , Vernon M. Chinchilli

We consider the problem of asynchronous online testing, aimed at providing control of the false discovery rate (FDR) during a continual stream of data collection and testing, where each test may be a sequential test that can start and stop…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-08-25 Tijana Zrnic , Aaditya Ramdas , Michael I. Jordan

This work concerns controlling the false discovery rate (FDR) in networks under communication constraints. We present sample-and-forward, a flexible and communication-efficient version of the Benjamini-Hochberg (BH) procedure for multihop…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-17 Mehrdad Pournaderi , Yu Xiang

In large-scale multiple hypothesis testing problems, the false discovery exceedance (FDX) provides a desirable alternative to the widely used false discovery rate (FDR) when the false discovery proportion (FDP) is highly variable. We…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-04-21 Pallavi Basu , Luella Fu , Alessio Saretto , Wenguang Sun

We develop a flexible feature selection framework based on deep neural networks that approximately controls the false discovery rate (FDR), a measure of Type-I error. The method applies to architectures whose first layer is fully connected.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-10 Kazuma Sawaya

We develop a new class of distribution--free multiple testing rules for false discovery rate (FDR) control under general dependence. A key element in our proposal is a symmetrized data aggregation (SDA) approach to incorporating the…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-05-27 Lilun Du , Xu Guo , Wenguang Sun , Changliang Zou

Selecting relevant features associated with a given response variable is an important issue in many scientific fields. Quantifying quality and uncertainty of a selection result via false discovery rate (FDR) control has been of recent…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-12-17 Chenguang Dai , Buyu Lin , Xin Xing , Jun S. Liu

We consider the problem of variable selection in high-dimensional statistical models where the goal is to report a set of variables, out of many predictors $X_1, \dotsc, X_p$, that are relevant to a response of interest. For linear…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-03-20 Adel Javanmard , Hamid Javadi

With the development of data collection techniques, analysis with a survival response and high-dimensional covariates has become routine. Here we consider an interaction model, which includes a set of low-dimensional covariates, a set of…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-11-27 Weijuan Liang , Qingzhao Zhang , Shuangge Ma

False discovery rate (FDR) is a commonly used criterion in multiple testing and the Benjamini-Hochberg (BH) procedure is arguably the most popular approach with FDR guarantee. To improve power, the adaptive BH procedure has been proposed by…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-10-11 Zijun Gao

In modern multiple hypothesis testing, the availability of covariate information alongside the primary test statistics has motivated the development of more powerful and adaptive inference methods. However, most existing approaches rely on…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-11-20 Taehyoung Kim , Seohwa Hwang , Junyong Park

Multiple hypotheses testing is a core problem in statistical inference and arises in almost every scientific field. Given a sequence of null hypotheses $\mathcal{H}(n) = (H_1,..., H_n)$, Benjamini and Hochberg…

Methodology · Statistics 2015-03-05 Adel Javanmard , Andrea Montanari

In many practical applications of multiple hypothesis testing using the False Discovery Rate (FDR), the given hypotheses can be naturally partitioned into groups, and one may not only want to control the number of false discoveries (wrongly…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-11-01 Rina Foygel Barber , Aaditya Ramdas

Distribution-free predictive inference beyond the construction of prediction sets has gained a lot of interest in recent applications. One such application is the selection task, where the objective is to design a reliable selection rule to…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-01-07 Yonghoon Lee , Zhimei Ren

In large scale multiple testing problems, a two-class empirical Bayes approach can be used to control the false discovery rate (Fdr) for the entire array of hypotheses under study. A sample splitting step is incorporated to modify that…

Computation · Statistics 2019-12-13 Paramita Chakraborty , Chong Ma , John Grego , James Lynch

The simultaneous analysis of many statistical tests is ubiquitous in applications. Perhaps the most popular error rate used for avoiding type one error inflation is the false discovery rate (FDR). However, most theoretical and software…

Computation · Statistics 2019-04-04 Guillermo Durand , Florian Junge , Sebastian Döhler , Etienne Roquain

Modern data analysis frequently involves large-scale hypothesis testing, which naturally gives rise to the problem of maintaining control of a suitable type I error rate, such as the false discovery rate (FDR). In many biomedical and…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-07-25 David S. Robertson , James M. S. Wason , Aaditya Ramdas