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We introduce local conditional hypotheses that express how the relation between explanatory variables and outcomes changes across different contexts, described by covariates. By expanding upon the model-X knockoff filter, we show how to…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-01-12 Paula Gablenz , Matteo Sesia , Tianshu Sun , Chiara Sabatti

The mitigation of false positives is an important issue when conducting multiple hypothesis testing. The most popular paradigm for false positives mitigation in high-dimensional applications is via the control of the false discovery rate…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-07-17 Hien D. Nguyen , Yohan Yee , Geoffrey J. McLachlan , Jason P. Lerch

Overweight and obesity remain a major global public health concern and identifying the individualized patterns that increase the risk of future weight gains has a crucial role in preventing obesity and numerous sub-sequent diseases…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Mina Samizadeh , Jessica C Jones-Smith , Bethany Sheridan , Rahmatollah Beheshti

We develop an extension of the Knockoff Inference procedure, introduced by Barber and Candes (2015). This new method, called Aggregation of Multiple Knockoffs (AKO), addresses the instability inherent to the random nature of Knockoff-based…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-06-26 Tuan-Binh Nguyen , Jérôme-Alexis Chevalier , Bertrand Thirion , Sylvain Arlot

Controlling the False Discovery Rate (FDR) is critical for reproducible variable selection, especially given the prevalence of complex predictive modeling. The recent Split Knockoff method, an extension of the canonical Knockoffs framework,…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-09-05 Yang Cao , Hangyu Lin , Xinwei Sun , Yuan Yao

Power and reproducibility are key to enabling refined scientific discoveries in contemporary big data applications with general high-dimensional nonlinear models. In this paper, we provide theoretical foundations on the power and robustness…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2017-09-04 Yingying Fan , Emre Demirkaya , Gaorong Li , Jinchi Lv

Identifying which variables do influence a response while controlling false positives pervades statistics and data science. In this paper, we consider a scenario in which we only have access to summary statistics, such as the values of…

The rapidly expanding field of metabolomics presents an invaluable resource for understanding the associations between metabolites and various diseases. However, the high dimensionality, presence of missing values, and measurement errors…

Many contemporary large-scale applications involve building interpretable models linking a large set of potential covariates to a response in a nonlinear fashion, such as when the response is binary. Although this modeling problem has been…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-12-13 Emmanuel Candes , Yingying Fan , Lucas Janson , Jinchi Lv

Recently, the scheme of model-X knockoffs was proposed as a promising solution to address controlled feature selection under high-dimensional finite-sample settings. However, the procedure of model-X knockoffs depends heavily on the…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-03-10 Xuebin Zhao , Hong Chen , Yingjie Wang , Weifu Li , Tieliang Gong , Yulong Wang , Feng Zheng

Recently, Barber and Cand\`es laid the theoretical foundation for a general framework for false discovery rate (FDR) control based on the notion of "knockoffs." A closely related FDR control methodology has long been employed in the…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-03-15 Dong Luo , Arya Ebadi , Yilun He , Kristen Emery , William Stafford Noble , Uri Keich

Large-scale multiple testing is a fundamental problem in high dimensional statistical inference. It is increasingly common that various types of auxiliary information, reflecting the structural relationship among the hypotheses, are…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-10-07 Hongyuan Cao , Jun Chen , Xianyang Zhang

In many multiple testing applications in genetics, the signs of test statistics provide useful directional information, such as whether genes are potentially up- or down-regulated between two experimental conditions. However, most existing…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-07-22 Zhaoyang Tian , Kun Liang , Pengfei Li

Large-scale multiple testing with correlated and heavy-tailed data arises in a wide range of research areas from genomics, medical imaging to finance. Conventional methods for estimating the false discovery proportion (FDP) often ignore the…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-09-19 Jianqing Fan , Yuan Ke , Qiang Sun , Wen-Xin Zhou

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

We propose one-at-a-time knockoffs (OATK), a new methodology for detecting important explanatory variables in linear regression models while controlling the false discovery rate (FDR). For each explanatory variable, OATK generates a…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-02-27 Charlie K. Guan , Zhimei Ren , Daniel W. Apley

Correlation networks are commonly used to infer associations between microbes and metabolites. The resulting p-values are then corrected for multiple comparisons using existing methods such as the Benjamini and Hochberg procedure to control…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-06-17 Jing Ma

Variable selection plays a crucial role in enhancing modeling effectiveness across diverse fields, addressing the challenges posed by high-dimensional datasets of correlated variables. This work introduces a novel approach namely Knockoff…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-01-31 Xiaochen Zhang , Yunfeng Cai , Haoyi Xiong

One important problem in microbiome analysis is to identify the bacterial taxa that are associated with a response, where the microbiome data are summarized as the composition of the bacterial taxa at different taxonomic levels. This paper…

Applications · Statistics 2016-03-04 Pixu Shi , Anru Zhang , Hongzhe Li

Large-scale hypothesis testing is central to modern science, where controlling the False Discovery Rate (FDR) has become the standard approach to managing false positives across many simultaneous tests. Hypotheses rarely exist in isolation;…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-05-19 Binyamin Perets , Shie Mannor