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Most link prediction methods return estimates of the connection probability of missing edges in a graph. Such output can be used to rank the missing edges from most to least likely to be a true edge, but does not directly provide a…

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Multiple testing with false discovery rate (FDR) control has been widely conducted in the ``discrete paradigm" where p-values have discrete and heterogeneous null distributions. However, in this scenario existing FDR procedures often lose…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-07-23 Xiongzhi Chen , R. W. Doerge , Sanat K. Sarkar

The knockoff-based multiple testing setup of Barber & Candes (2015) for variable selection in multiple regression where sample size is as large as the number of explanatory variables is considered. The method of Benjamini & Hochberg (1995)…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-08-20 Sanat K. Sarkar , Cheng Yong Tang

Analyzing large-scale, multi-experiment studies requires scientists to test each experimental outcome for statistical significance and then assess the results as a whole. We present Black Box FDR (BB-FDR), an empirical-Bayes method for…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-06-11 Wesley Tansey , Yixin Wang , David M. Blei , Raul Rabadan

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

This paper discusses several p-value-free multiple hypothesis testing methods proposed in recent years and organizes them by introducing a unified framework termed competition test. Although existing competition tests are effective in…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-12-02 Mingzhou Deng , Yan Fu

Currently, there is an urgent demand for scalable multivariate and high-dimensional false discovery rate (FDR)-controlling variable selection methods to ensure the repro-ducibility of discoveries. However, among existing methods, only the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-01 Fabian Scheidt , Jasin Machkour , Michael Muma

The steep rise in availability and usage of high-throughput technologies in biology brought with it a clear need for methods to control the False Discovery Rate (FDR) in multiple tests. Benjamini and Hochberg (BH) introduced in 1995 a…

Methodology · Statistics 2011-08-11 Amit Zeisel , Or Zuk , Eytan Domany

The generalized linear models (GLM) have been widely used in practice to model non-Gaussian response variables. When the number of explanatory features is relatively large, scientific researchers are of interest to perform controlled…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-07-03 Chenguang Dai , Buyu Lin , Xin Xing , Jun S. Liu

Quantum devices need precise control to achieve their full capability. In this work, we address the problem of controlling closed quantum systems, tackling two main issues. First, in practice the control signals are usually subject to…

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A concept-based classifier can explain the decision process of a deep learning model by human-understandable concepts in image classification problems. However, sometimes concept-based explanations may cause false positives, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Kaiwen Xu , Kazuto Fukuchi , Youhei Akimoto , Jun Sakuma

We present false discovery rate smoothing, an empirical-Bayes method for exploiting spatial structure in large multiple-testing problems. FDR smoothing automatically finds spatially localized regions of significant test statistics. It then…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-11-15 Wesley Tansey , Oluwasanmi Koyejo , Russell A. Poldrack , James G. Scott

We propose sequential multiple testing procedures which control the false discover rate (FDR) or the positive false discovery rate (pFDR) under arbitrary dependence between the data streams. This is accomplished by "optimizing" an upper…

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This paper presents a Model-Inspired Distributionally Robust Data-enabled Predictive Control (MDR-DeePC) framework for systems with partially known and uncertain dynamics. The proposed method integrates model-based equality constraints for…

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A core strength of knockoff methods is their virtually limitless customizability, allowing an analyst to exploit machine learning algorithms and domain knowledge without threatening the method's robust finite-sample false discovery rate…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-07-15 Xiao Li , William Fithian

In the multiple testing problem with independent tests, the classical linear step-up procedure controls the false discovery rate (FDR) at level $\pi_0\alpha$, where $\pi_0$ is the proportion of true null hypotheses and $\alpha$ is the…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-08-29 Peter MacDonald , Kun Liang , Arnold Janssen

In hypothesis testing, a false discovery occurs when a hypothesis is incorrectly rejected due to noise in the sample. When adaptively testing multiple hypotheses, the probability of a false discovery increases as more tests are performed.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-10-22 Wanrong Zhang , Gautam Kamath , Rachel Cummings

This paper develops a method based on model-X knockoffs to find conditional associations that are consistent across diverse environments, controlling the false discovery rate. The motivation for this problem is that large data sets may…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-06-09 Shuangning Li , Matteo Sesia , Yaniv Romano , Emmanuel Candès , Chiara Sabatti

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

In the high dimensional regression analysis when the number of predictors is much larger than the sample size, an important question is to select the important variable which are relevant to the response variable of interest. Variable…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-01-09 Pengsheng Ji , Zhigen Zhao