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Feature selection is central to contemporary high-dimensional data analysis. Grouping structure among features arises naturally in various scientific problems. Many methods have been proposed to incorporate the grouping structure…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Guangyu Zhu , Tingting Zhao

Balancing false discovery rate (FDR) control with high statistical power remains a central challenge in high-dimensional variable selection. While several FDR-controlling methods have been proposed, many degrade the original data -- by…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-07-16 Changhu Wang , Ziheng Zhang , Jingyi Jessica Li

In many applications of multiple hypothesis testing where more than one false rejection can be tolerated, procedures controlling error rates measuring at least $k$ false rejections, instead of at least one, for some fixed $k\ge 1$ can…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2008-12-18 Sanat K. Sarkar

Effectively controlling the false discovery rate (FDR) in high-dimensional variable selection is a fundamental statistical problem that has garnered significant research interest. In this paper, we propose a novel, user-friendly, and…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-04-28 Yujia Wu , Panxu Yuan , Binyan Jiang

The genetic basis of multiple phenotypes such as gene expression, metabolite levels, or imaging features is often investigated by testing a large collection of hypotheses, probing the existence of association between each of the traits and…

Applications · Statistics 2015-04-06 Christine Peterson , Marina Bogomolov , Yoav Benjamini , Chiara Sabatti

In real-world applications of reinforcement learning, it is often challenging to obtain a state representation that is parsimonious and satisfies the Markov property without prior knowledge. Consequently, it is common practice to construct…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-07-31 Tao Ma , Jin Zhu , Hengrui Cai , Zhengling Qi , Yunxiao Chen , Chengchun Shi , Eric B. Laber

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

False discovery rate (FDR) control is a popular approach for maintaining the integrity of statistical analyses, especially in high-dimensional data settings, where multiple comparisons increase the risk of false positives. FDR control has…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-03 Fabian Scheidt , Jasin Machkour , Michael Muma

This paper provides two general classes of multiple decision functions where each member of the first class strongly controls the family-wise error rate (FWER), while each member of the second class strongly controls the false discovery…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-11-19 Edsel A. Pena , Joshua D. Habiger , Wensong Wu

We consider the problem of variable selection in regression models. In particular, we are interested in selecting explanatory covariates linked with the response variable and we want to determine which covariates are relevant, that is which…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-07-09 Anne Gégout-Petit , Aurélie Gueudin-Muller , Clémence Karmann

The $\gamma$-FDP and $k$-FWER multiple testing error metrics, which are tail probabilities of the respective error statistics, have become popular recently as less-stringent alternatives to the FDR and FWER. We propose general and flexible…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-12-20 Jay Bartroff

Knockoffs provide a general framework for controlling the false discovery rate when performing variable selection. Much of the Knockoffs literature focuses on theoretical challenges and we recognize a need for bringing some of the current…

Multiple hypothesis testing with false discovery rate (FDR) control is a fundamental problem in statistical inference, with broad applications in genomics, drug screening, and outlier detection. In many such settings, researchers may have…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-02-19 Yonghoon Lee , Meshi Bashari , Edgar Dobriban , Yaniv Romano

Considering the knockoff-based multiple testing framework of Barber and Cand\`es [2015], we revisit the method of Sarkar and Tang [2022] and identify it as a specific case of an un-normalized e-value weighted Benjamini-Hochberg procedure.…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-02-13 Aniket Biswas , Aaditya Ramdas

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

We show that the control of the false discovery rate (FDR) for a multiple testing procedure is implied by two coupled simple sufficient conditions. The first one, which we call ``self-consistency condition'', concerns the algorithm itself,…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2008-10-21 Gilles Blanchard , Etienne Roquain

The false discovery rate (FDR) and the false non-discovery rate (FNR), defined as the expected false discovery proportion (FDP) and the false non-discovery proportion (FNP), are the most popular benchmarks for multiple testing. Despite the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-09-03 Yutong Nie , Yihong Wu

Multiple hypothesis testing is a fundamental problem in high dimensional inference, with wide applications in many scientific fields. In genome-wide association studies, tens of thousands of tests are performed simultaneously to find if any…

Methodology · Statistics 2010-12-21 Xu Han , Weijie Gu , Jianqing Fan

Variable selection properties of procedures utilizing penalized-likelihood estimates is a central topic in the study of high dimensional linear regression problems. Existing literature emphasizes the quality of ranking of the variables by…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-04-28 Asaf Weinstein , Weijie J. Su , Małgorzata Bogdan , Rina F. Barber , Emmanuel J. Candès

Predictive modeling often uses black box machine learning methods, such as deep neural networks, to achieve state-of-the-art performance. In scientific domains, the scientist often wishes to discover which features are actually important…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-08-03 Mukund Sudarshan , Wesley Tansey , Rajesh Ranganath