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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

Researchers in biomedical studies often work with samples that are not selected uniformly at random from the population of interest, a major example being a case-control study. While these designs are motivated by specific scientific…

Knockoffs are a popular statistical framework that addresses the challenging problem of conditional variable selection in high-dimensional settings with statistical control. Such statistical control is essential for the reliability of…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-04-30 Alexandre Blain , Angel Reyero Lobo , Julia Linhart , Bertrand Thirion , Pierre Neuvial

In many scientific fields, researchers are interested in discovering features with substantial effect on the response from a large number of features while controlling the proportion of false discoveries. By incorporating the knockoff…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-02-28 Jiaqi Gu , Guosheng Yin

The recent proliferation of high-dimensional data, such as electronic health records and genetics data, offers new opportunities to find novel predictors of outcomes. Presented with a large set of candidate features, interest often lies in…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-09-24 Michael J. Martens , Anjishnu Banerjee , Xinran Qi , Yushu Shi

We propose the group knockoff filter, a method for false discovery rate control in a linear regression setting where the features are grouped, and we would like to select a set of relevant groups which have a nonzero effect on the response.…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-02-12 Ran Dai , Rina Foygel Barber

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

Although there is a huge literature on feature selection for the Cox model, none of the existing approaches can control the false discovery rate (FDR) unless the sample size tends to infinity. In addition, there is no formal power analysis…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-08-02 Daoji Li , Jinzhao Yu , Hui Zhao

Controlling false discovery rate (FDR) is crucial for variable selection, multiple testing, among other signal detection problems. In literature, there is certainly no shortage of FDR control strategies when selecting individual features,…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-04-11 Jingyuan Liu , Ao Sun , Yuan Ke

Selecting important features that have substantial effects on the response with provable type-I error rate control is a fundamental concern in statistics, with wide-ranging practical applications. Existing knockoff filters, although shown…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-02-29 Jiaqi Gu , Zihuai He

False discovery rate (FDR) controlling procedures provide important statistical guarantees for the replicability in signal identification based on multiple hypotheses testing. In many fields of study, FDR controlling procedures are used in…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-10-04 Ran Dai , Cheng Zheng

We consider the problem of multiple hypothesis testing with generic side information: for each hypothesis $H_i$ we observe both a p-value $p_i$ and some predictor $x_i$ encoding contextual information about the hypothesis. For large-scale…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-07-26 Lihua Lei , William Fithian

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…

Controlled variable selection is an important analytical step in various scientific fields, such as brain imaging or genomics. In these high-dimensional data settings, considering too many variables leads to poor models and high costs,…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-10-17 Alexandre Blain , Bertrand Thirion , Olivier Grisel , Pierre Neuvial

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

This paper presents and compares alternative transfer learning methods that can increase the power of conditional testing via knockoffs by leveraging prior information in external data sets collected from different populations or measuring…

Applications · Statistics 2021-08-20 Shuangning Li , Zhimei Ren , Chiara Sabatti , Matteo Sesia

Identifying variants that carry substantial information on the trait of interest remains a core topic in genetic studies. In analyzing the EADB-UKBB dataset to identify genetic variants associated with Alzheimer's disease (AD), however, we…

Applications · Statistics 2025-12-04 Jiaqi Gu , Zhaomeng Chen , Zihuai He

Model-X knockoffs is a general procedure that can leverage any feature importance measure to produce a variable selection algorithm, which discovers true effects while rigorously controlling the number or fraction of false positives.…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-12-07 Zhimei Ren , Yuting Wei , Emmanuel Candès

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…

A new statistical procedure (Model-X \cite{candes2018}) has provided a way to identify important factors using any supervised learning method controlling for FDR. This line of research has shown great potential to expand the horizon of…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-10-01 Ying Liu , Cheng Zheng