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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

The fixed-X knockoff filter is a flexible framework for variable selection with false discovery rate (FDR) control in linear models with arbitrary design matrices (of full column rank) and it allows for finite-sample selective inference via…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-11-28 Mehrdad Pournaderi , Yu Xiang

Knockoffs is a new framework for controlling the false discovery rate (FDR) in multiple hypothesis testing problems involving complex statistical models. While there has been great emphasis on Type-I error control, Type-II errors have been…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-12-19 Asaf Weinstein , Rina Barber , Emmanuel Candes

We propose a unified theoretical framework for studying the robustness of the model-X knockoffs framework by investigating the asymptotic false discovery rate (FDR) control of the practically implemented approximate knockoffs procedure.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-02-11 Yingying Fan , Lan Gao , Jinchi Lv , Xiaocong Xu

False discovery rate (FDR) is a cornerstone of modern multiple testing. However, it often fails to guarantee the reliability of "marginal" discoveries that lie at the boundary of the rejection set, which are often crucial in high-precision…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-05-12 Yifan Zhang , Wentao Zhang , Changliang Zou , Haojie Ren

We consider the problem of assessing the importance of multiple variables or factors from a dataset when side information is available. In principle, using side information can allow the statistician to pay attention to variables with a…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-01-23 Zhimei Ren , Emmanuel Candès

Controlling the false discovery rate (FDR) is a powerful approach to multiple testing. In many applications, the tested hypotheses have an inherent hierarchical structure. In this paper, we focus on the fixed sequence structure where the…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-11-11 Gavin Lynch , Wenge Guo , Sanat K. Sarkar , Helmut Finner

One challenge in exploratory association studies using observational data is that the associations between the predictors and the outcome are potentially weak and rare, and the candidate predictors have complex correlation structures. False…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-01-30 Runqiu Wang , Ran Dai , Hongying Dai , Evan French , Cheng Zheng

Simultaneously performing variable selection and inference in high-dimensional regression models is an open challenge in statistics and machine learning. The increasing availability of vast amounts of variables requires the adoption of…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-05-08 Marco Molinari , Magne Thoresen

As the volume and complexity of data continue to expand across various scientific disciplines, the need for robust methods to account for the multiplicity of comparisons has grown widespread. A popular measure of type 1 error rate in…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-11-19 Jianliang He , Bowen Gang , Luella Fu

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

This paper is concerned with false discovery rate (FDR) control in large-scale multiple testing problems. We first propose a new data-driven testing procedure for controlling the FDR in large-scale t-tests for one-sample mean problem. The…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-03-02 Changliang Zou , Haojie Ren , Xu Guo , Runze Li

Multiple resolutions arise across a range of explanatory features due to domain-specific structures, leading to the formation of feature groups. It follows that the simultaneous detection of significant features and groups aimed at a…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-12-23 Chengyao Yu , Ruixing Ming , Min Xiao , Zhanfeng Wang , Bingyi Jing

In many applications, we need to study a linear regression model that consists of a response variable and a large number of potential explanatory variables and determine which variables are truly associated with the response. In 2015,…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-07-23 Jiajie Chen , Anthony Hou , Thomas Y. Hou

The False Discovery Rate (FDR) is a new statistical procedure to control the number of mistakes made when performing multiple hypothesis tests, i.e. when comparing many data against a given model hypothesis. The key advantage of FDR is that…

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

We describe a series of algorithms that efficiently implement Gaussian model-X knockoffs to control the false discovery rate on large scale feature selection problems. Identifying the knockoff distribution requires solving a large scale…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-17 Armin Askari , Quentin Rebjock , Alexandre d'Aspremont , Laurent El Ghaoui

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

We address challenges in variable selection with highly correlated data that are frequently present in finance, economics, but also in complex natural systems as e.g. weather. We develop a robustified version of the knockoff framework,…

Econometrics · Economics 2022-06-14 Konstantin Görgen , Abdolreza Nazemi , Melanie Schienle

We introduce a novel privatization framework for high-dimensional controlled variable selection. Our framework enables rigorous False Discovery Rate (FDR) control under differential privacy constraints. While the Model-X knockoff procedure…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-08-08 Yuxuan Tao , Adel Javanmard