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In the field of multiple hypothesis testing, combining p-values represents a fundamental statistical method. The Cauchy combination test (CCT) (Liu and Xie, 2020) excels among numerous methods for combining p-values with powerful and…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-10-17 Yanyan Ouyang , Xingwei Liu , Lixing Zhu , Wangli Xu

Cauchy combination test has been widely used for combining correlated p-values, but it may fail to work under certain scenarios. We propose a truncated Cauchy combination test (TCCT) which focus on combining p-values with arbitrary…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-06-17 Bo Chen , Wei Xu , Xin Gao

Combining individual p-values to aggregate multiple small effects has a long-standing interest in statistics, dating back to the classic Fisher's combination test. In modern large-scale data analysis, correlation and sparsity are common…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-11-30 Yaowu Liu , Jun Xie

The Cauchy combination test (CCT) is a $p$-value combination method used in multiple-hypothesis testing and is robust under dependence structures. This study aims to evaluate the CCT for independent and correlated count data where the…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-04-22 Huda Alsulami , Silvia Liverani

A novel class of methods for combining $p$-values to perform aggregate hypothesis tests has emerged that exploit the properties of heavy-tailed Stable distributions. These methods offer important practical advantages including robustness to…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-05-05 Daniel J. Wilson

We introduce a simple tool to control for false discoveries and identify individual signals in scenarios involving many tests, dependent test statistics, and potentially sparse signals. The tool applies the Cauchy combination test…

Econometrics · Economics 2023-06-02 Nabil Bouamara , Sébastien Laurent , Shuping Shi

We introduce a novel meta-analysis framework to combine dependent tests under a general setting, and utilize it to synthesize various microbiome association tests that are calculated from the same dataset. Our development builds upon the…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-04-16 Xiufan Yu , Linjun Zhang , Arun Srinivasan , Min-ge Xie , Lingzhou Xue

The Cauchy combination test (CCT) is widely used because it gives a closed-form combined $p$-value and is known to be asymptotically valid as the nominal level $\alpha\downarrow0$ under broad dependence structures. We study a different…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-03-25 Hirofumi Ota

Combining dependent p-values poses a long-standing challenge in statistical inference, particularly when aggregating findings from multiple methods to enhance signal detection. Recently, p-value combination tests based on regularly…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-04-22 Lin Gui , Yuchao Jiang , Jingshu Wang

Motivation: Combining the results of different experiments to exhibit complex patterns or to improve statistical power is a typical aim of data integration. The starting point of the statistical analysis often comes as sets of p-values…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-12-02 Tristan Mary-Huard , Sarmistha Das , Indranil Mukhopadhyay , Stéphane Robin

Testing high-dimensional quantile regression coefficients is crucial, as tail quantiles often reveal more than the mean in many practical applications. Nevertheless, the sparsity pattern of the alternative hypothesis is typically unknown in…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-12-29 Ping Zhao , Zhenyu Liu , Dan Zhuang

Non-proportional hazards data are routinely encountered in randomized clinical trials. In such cases, classic Cox proportional hazards model can suffer from severe power loss, with difficulty in interpretation of the estimated hazard ratio…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-12-29 Hong Zhang , Qing Li , Devan V. Mehrotra , Judong Shen

The issue of combining individual $p$-values to aggregate multiple small effects is prevalent in many scientific investigations and is a long-standing statistical topic. Many classical methods are designed for combining independent and…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-09-08 Yusi Fang , George C. Tseng , Chung Chang

It is often of interest to test a global null hypothesis using multiple, possibly dependent $p$-values by combining their strengths while controlling the type-I error. Recently, several heavy-tailed combination tests, such as the harmonic…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-03-25 Parijat Chakraborty , F. Richard Guo , Kerby Shedden , Stilian Stoev

Combinatorial Testing (CT) is a potentially powerful testing technique, whereas its failure revealing ability might be dramatically reduced if it fails to handle constraints in an adequate and efficient manner. To ensure the wider…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-08-08 Huayao Wu , Changhai Nie , Justyna Petke , Yue Jia , Mark Harman

This paper proposes a stable combination test, which is a natural extension of Cauchy combination tests by Liu and Xie (2020). Similarly to the Cauchy combination test, our stable combination test is simple to compute, enjoys good sizes,…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-08-19 Xing Ling , Yeonwoo Rho

Heavy-tailed combination tests, such as the Cauchy combination test and harmonic mean p-value method, are widely used for testing global null hypotheses by aggregating dependent p-values. However, their theoretical guarantees under general…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-08-11 Lin Gui , Tiantian Mao , Jingshu Wang , Ruodu Wang

In causal inference, it is common to estimate the causal effect of a single treatment variable on an outcome. However, practitioners may also be interested in the effect of simultaneous interventions on multiple covariates of a fixed target…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-11-24 Jaime Roquero Gimenez , Dominik Rothenhäusler

Handling multiplicity without losing much power has been a persistent challenge in various fields that often face the necessity of managing numerous statistical tests simultaneously. Recently, $p$-value combination methods based on…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-02-06 Yeonwoo Rho

A Partial Conjunction Hypothesis (PCH) test combines information across a set of base hypotheses to determine whether some subset is non-null. PCH tests arise in a diverse array of fields, but standard PCH testing methods can be highly…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-05-16 Biyonka Liang , Lu Zhang , Lucas Janson
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