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The recent paper Cand\`es et al. (2018) introduced model-X knockoffs, a method for variable selection that provably and non-asymptotically controls the false discovery rate with no restrictions or assumptions on the dimensionality of the…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-06-16 Dongming Huang , Lucas Janson

In regression settings where explanatory variables have very low correlations and there are relatively few effects, each of large magnitude, we expect the Lasso to find the important variables with few errors, if any. This paper shows that…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-09-16 Weijie Su , Malgorzata Bogdan , Emmanuel Candes

The L1 regularization (Lasso) has proven to be a versatile tool to select relevant features and estimate the model coefficients simultaneously and has been widely used in many research areas such as genomes studies, finance, and biomedical…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-05-21 Songshan Yang , Jiawei Wen , Xiang Zhan , Daniel Kifer

We consider problems where many, somewhat redundant, hypotheses are tested and we are interested in reporting the most precise rejections, with false discovery rate (FDR) control. This is the case, for example, when researchers are…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-04-23 Paula Gablenz , Chiara Sabatti

We apply the knockoff procedure to factor selection in finance. By building fake but realistic factors, this procedure makes it possible to control the fraction of false discovery in a given set of factors. To show its versatility, we apply…

Statistical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2021-07-07 Damien Challet , Christian Bongiorno , Guillaume Pelletier

We make some initial attempt to establish the theoretical and methodological foundation for the model-X knockoffs inference for time series data. We suggest the method of time series knockoffs inference (TSKI) by exploiting the ideas of…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-03-03 Chien-Ming Chi , Yingying Fan , Ching-Kang Ing , Jinchi Lv

Multiple comparisons in hypothesis testing often encounter structural constraints in various applications. For instance, in structural Magnetic Resonance Imaging for Alzheimer's Disease, the focus extends beyond examining atrophic brain…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-11-08 Yang Cao , Xinwei Sun , Yuan Yao

Testing multiple hypotheses of conditional independence with provable error rate control is a fundamental problem with various applications. To infer conditional independence with family-wise error rate (FWER) control when only summary…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-10-17 Catherine Xinrui Yu , Jiaqi Gu , Zhaomeng Chen , Zihuai He

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

The knockoff filter is a powerful tool for controlled variable selection with false discovery rate (FDR) control. In this paper, we leverage e-values to allow the nominal FDR level to be switched post-hoc, after looking at the data and…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-02-20 Lasse Fischer , Konstantinos Sechidis

Modern scientific technology has provided a new class of large-scale simultaneous inference problems, with thousands of hypothesis tests to consider at the same time. Microarrays epitomize this type of technology, but similar situations…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2007-11-06 Bradley Efron

Bayesian networks can represent directed gene regulations and therefore are favored over co-expression networks. However, hardly any Bayesian network study concerns the false discovery control (FDC) of network edges, leading to low…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-03-29 Lingfei Wang , Tom Michoel

We extend the knockoffs method for selecting predictors to clustered data (cross-sectional or repeated measures). In the setting of clustered data, variable selection is complex because some predictors are measured at the observation level…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-02-24 Silvia Bacci , Leonardo Grilli , Carla Rampichini

In many scientific problems, researchers try to relate a response variable $Y$ to a set of potential explanatory variables $X = (X_1,\dots,X_p)$, and start by trying to identify variables that contribute to this relationship. In statistical…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-10-07 Wenshuo Wang , Lucas Janson

Interpretability and stability are two important features that are desired in many contemporary big data applications arising in economics and finance. While the former is enjoyed to some extent by many existing forecasting approaches, the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-09-14 Yingying Fan , Jinchi Lv , Mahrad Sharifvaghefi , Yoshimasa Uematsu

Model-X knockoffs is a wrapper that transforms essentially any feature importance measure into a variable selection algorithm, which discovers true effects while rigorously controlling the expected fraction of false positives. A frequently…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-03-12 Stephen Bates , Emmanuel Candès , Lucas Janson , Wenshuo Wang

A core strength of knockoff methods is their virtually limitless customizability, allowing an analyst to exploit machine learning algorithms and domain knowledge without threatening the method's robust finite-sample false discovery rate…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-07-15 Xiao Li , William Fithian

Model-X knockoffs is a flexible wrapper method for high-dimensional regression algorithms, which provides guaranteed control of the false discovery rate (FDR). Due to the randomness inherent to the method, different runs of model-X…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-09-01 Zhimei Ren , Rina Foygel Barber

In high dimensional settings where a small number of regressors are expected to be important, the Lasso estimator can be used to obtain a sparse solution vector with the expectation that most of the non-zero coefficients are associated with…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-04-01 Erik Drysdale , Yingwei Peng , Timothy P. Hanna , Paul Nguyen , Anna Goldenberg

We tackle the problem of selecting from among a large number of variables those that are 'important' for an outcome. We consider situations where groups of variables are also of interest in their own right. For example, each variable might…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-08-13 Eugene Katsevich , Chiara Sabatti