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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

We present a novel necessary and sufficient principle for multiple testing methods controlling an expected loss. This principle asserts that every such multiple testing method is a special case of a general closed testing procedure based on…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-01-05 Ziyu Xu , Aldo Solari , Lasse Fischer , Rianne de Heide , Aaditya Ramdas , Jelle Goeman

Large-scale multiple testing is a fundamental problem in high dimensional statistical inference. It is increasingly common that various types of auxiliary information, reflecting the structural relationship among the hypotheses, are…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-10-07 Hongyuan Cao , Jun Chen , Xianyang Zhang

Closed testing and partitioning are recognized as fundamental principles of familywise error control. In this paper, we argue that sequential rejection can be considered equally fundamental as a general principle of multiple testing. We…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2012-11-15 Jelle J. Goeman , Aldo Solari

Hierarchical classification addresses the problem of classifying items into a hierarchy of classes. An important issue in hierarchical classification is the evaluation of different classification algorithms, which is complicated by the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-04-01 Aris Kosmopoulos , Ioannis Partalas , Eric Gaussier , Georgios Paliouras , Ion Androutsopoulos

Motivated by recent findings in Li and Zhang (2025), which established an equivalence between certain p-value-based multiple testing procedures and the e-Benjamini-Hochberg procedure (Wang and Ramdas, 2022), we introduce a general framework…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-08-22 Guanxun Li , Xianyang Zhang

Multiple hypothesis testing is widely used to evaluate scientific studies involving statistical tests. However, for many of these tests, p-values are not available and are thus often approximated using Monte Carlo tests such as permutation…

Applications · Statistics 2018-10-17 Axel Gandy , Georg Hahn

In this paper,our main focus is to obtain an asymptotic bound on the family wise error rate (FWER) for Bonferroni-type procedure in the simultaneous hypotheses testing problem when the observations corresponding to individual hypothesis are…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-08-27 Nabaneet Das , Subir K. Bhandari

One class of statistical hypothesis testing procedures is the indisputable equivalence tests, whose main objective is to establish practical equivalence rather than the usual statistical significant difference. These hypothesis tests are…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-01-04 Daniel Ochieng

Replication studies for scientific research are an important part of ensuring the reliability and integrity of experimental findings. In the context of clinical trials, the concept of replication has been formalised by the 'two-trials'…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-10-27 David S. Robertson , Thomas Jaki

Many statistical problems can be addressed by applying a multiple testing procedure (MTP) that controls either the Family-wise Error Rate (FWER) or False Discovery Rate (FDR) under unknown arbitrarily-interdependent $p$-values, without…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-05-21 George Karabatsos

Simultaneous tests of superiority and non-inferiority hypotheses on multiple endpoints are often performed in clinical trials to demonstrate that a new treatment is superior over a control on at least one endpoint and non-inferior on the…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-10-02 Wenfeng Chen , Naiqing Zhao , Guoyou Qin , Jie Chen

When different researchers study the same research question using the same dataset they may obtain different and potentially even conflicting results. This is because there is often substantial flexibility in researchers' analytical…

Natural and social multivariate systems are commonly studied through sets of simultaneous and time-spaced measurements of the observables that drive their dynamics, i.e., through sets of time series. Typically, this is done via hypothesis…

Statistical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2020-07-01 Riccardo Marcaccioli , Giacomo Livan

There has been a misconception that only one type of error rate control is necessary in clinical trials, leading to debates over whether to prioritize Familywise Error Rate (FWER) or False Discovery Rate (FDR). This misconception has led to…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-03-26 Xinping Cui , Emily Ouyang , Yi Liu , Jingjing Yan Schneider , Hong Tian , Bushi Wang , Jason C. Hsu

When analyzing real-world data it is common to work with event ensembles, which comprise sets of observations that collectively constrain the parameters of an underlying model of interest. Such models often have a hierarchical structure,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-02-22 Lukas Heinrich , Siddharth Mishra-Sharma , Chris Pollard , Philipp Windischhofer

High-dimensional tests are applied to find relevant sets of variables and relevant models. If variables are selected by analyzing the sums of products matrices and a corresponding mean-value test is performed, there is the danger that the…

Methodology · Statistics 2012-02-10 Juergen Laeuter , Maciej Rosolowski , Ekkehard Glimm

In large scale multiple testing problems, a two-class empirical Bayes approach can be used to control the false discovery rate (Fdr) for the entire array of hypotheses under study. A sample splitting step is incorporated to modify that…

Computation · Statistics 2019-12-13 Paramita Chakraborty , Chong Ma , John Grego , James Lynch

In this article, we propose a generalized weighted version of the well-known Benjamini-Hochberg (BH) procedure. The rigorous weighting scheme used by our method enables it to encode structural information from simultaneous multi-way…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-05-25 Shinjini Nandi , Sanat K. Sarkar

Large-scale simultaneous hypothesis testing appears in many areas such as microarray studies, genome-wide association studies, brain imaging, disease mapping and astronomical surveys. A well-known inference method is to control the false…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-07-22 Xiaoqing Niu , Pengfei Li , Yuejiao Fu