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For a weighted false discovery rate (FDR) procedure for multiple testing the means of equicorrelated normal random variables, we provide an analytic, non-asymptotic, uniform FDR upper bound for its FDR. Two additional and related results…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-12-07 Faith Zhang , Xiongzhi Chen

Thanks to its fine balance between model flexibility and interpretability, the nonparametric additive model has been widely used, and variable selection for this type of model has been frequently studied. However, none of the existing…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-01-10 Xiaowu Dai , Xiang Lyu , Lexin Li

The knockoff filter is a recent false discovery rate (FDR) control method for high-dimensional linear models. We point out that knockoff has three key components: ranking algorithm, augmented design, and symmetric statistic, and each…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-02-14 Zheng Tracy Ke , Jun S. Liu , Yucong Ma

Differentially private multiple testing procedures can protect the information of individuals used in hypothesis tests while guaranteeing a small fraction of false discoveries. In this paper, we propose a differentially private adaptive FDR…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-06-01 Xintao Xia , Zhanrui Cai

In the context of high-dimensional Gaussian linear regression for ordered variables, we study the variable selection procedure via the minimization of the penalized least-squares criterion. We focus on model selection where the penalty…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-07-01 Perrine Lacroix , Marie-Laure Martin

A scientist tests a continuous stream of hypotheses over time in the course of her investigation -- she does not test a predetermined, fixed number of hypotheses. The scientist wishes to make as many discoveries as possible while ensuring…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-11-14 Ziyu Xu , Aaditya Ramdas

Identifying signals that replicate across multiple studies is essential for establishing robust scientific evidence, yet existing methods for high-dimensional replicability analysis either rely on restrictive modeling assumptions, are…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-03-05 Haochen Lei , Yan Li , Hongyuan Cao

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

This paper studies the classical problem of estimating the locations of signal occurrences in a noisy measurement. Based on a multiple hypothesis testing scheme, we design a K-sample statistical test to control the false discovery rate…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-26 Uriel Shiterburd , Tamir Bendory , Amichai Painsky

The present paper introduces new adaptive multiple tests which rely on the estimation of the number of true null hypotheses and which control the false discovery rate (FDR) at level alpha for finite sample size. We derive exact formulas for…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2014-10-24 Philipp Heesen , Arnold Janssen

This paper is a review of the popular Benjamini Hochberg Method and other related useful methods of Multiple Hypothesis testing. This is written with the purpose of serving a short but complete easy to understand review of the main article…

Methodology · Statistics 2014-06-30 Anish Acharya

There are a number of ways to test for the absence/presence of a spatial signal in a completely observed fine-resolution image. One of these is a powerful nonparametric procedure called Enhanced False Discovery Rate (EFDR). A drawback of…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-10-20 Hsin-Cheng Huang , Noel Cressie , Andrew Zammit-Mangion , Guowen Huang

Many methods have been developed to estimate the set of relevant variables in a sparse linear model Y= XB+e where the dimension p of B can be much higher than the length n of Y. Here we propose two new methods based on multiple hypotheses…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2012-06-12 Florian Rohart

This paper explores the multiple testing problem for sparse high-dimensional data with binary outcomes. We propose novel empirical Bayes multiple testing procedures based on a spike-and-slab posterior and then evaluate their performance in…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-06-16 Yu-Chien Bo Ning

Controlling the false discovery rate (FDR) is a critical challenge in large-scale data analysis, particularly in the presence of outliers. A common practice involves imposing a Student-$t$ distribution to eliminate the influence of…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-04-01 Yoshiko Hayashi

We consider the problem of asynchronous online testing, aimed at providing control of the false discovery rate (FDR) during a continual stream of data collection and testing, where each test may be a sequential test that can start and stop…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-08-25 Tijana Zrnic , Aaditya Ramdas , Michael I. Jordan

We apply multiple testing procedures to the validation of estimated default probabilities in credit rating systems. The goal is to identify rating classes for which the probability of default is estimated inaccurately, while still…

Applications · Statistics 2010-06-28 Sebastian Döhler

Simultaneously finding multiple influential variables and controlling the false discovery rate (FDR) for linear regression models is a fundamental problem. We here propose the Gaussian Mirror (GM) method, which creates for each predictor…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-03-22 Xin Xing , Zhigen Zhao , Jun S. Liu

Complex large-scale studies, such as those related to microarray data and fMRI studies, often involve testing multiple hierarchically ordered hypotheses. However, most existing false discovery rate (FDR) controlling procedures do not…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-12-15 Gavin Lynch , Wenge Guo

We tackle the problem of selecting from among a large number of variables those that are 'important' for an outcome. We consider situations where groups of variables are also of interest in their own right. For example, each variable might…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-08-13 Eugene Katsevich , Chiara Sabatti