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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…

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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

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

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

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

Rare and Weak models for multiple hypothesis testing assume that only a small proportion of the tested hypotheses concern non-null effects and the individual effects are only moderately large, so they generally do not stand out…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-02-20 Alon Kipnis

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

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

We leverage recent advances in heavy-tail approximations for global hypothesis testing with dependent studies to construct approximate confidence regions without modeling or estimating their dependence structures. A non-rejection region is…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-10-06 Tianle Liu , Xiao-Li Meng , Natesh S. Pillai

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 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

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

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

Aggregating multiple effects is often encountered in large-scale data analysis where the fraction of significant effects is generally small. Many existing methods cannot handle it effectively because of lack of computational accuracy for…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-08-03 Mingya Long , Zhengbang Li , Wei Zhang , Qizhai Li

Correlated observations are ubiquitous phenomena in a plethora of scientific avenues. Tackling this dependence among test statistics has been one of the pertinent problems in simultaneous inference. However, very little literature exists…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-11-20 Monitirtha Dey

Global hypothesis tests are a useful tool in the context of, e.g, clinical trials, genetic studies or meta analyses, when researchers are not interested in testing individual hypotheses, but in testing whether none of the hypotheses is…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-09-05 Andreas Futschik , Thomas Taus , Sonja Zehetmayer

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

Many multiple testing procedures make use of the p-values from the individual pairs of hypothesis tests, and are valid if the p-value statistics are independent and uniformly distributed under the null hypotheses. However, it has recently…

Methodology · Statistics 2011-08-25 Joshua D. Habiger , Edsel A. Pena

We study global inference for regression coefficients in high-dimensional linear models under potentially heavy-tailed errors. While sum-type tests are powerful for dense alternatives and max-type tests excel for sparse alternatives,…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-03-17 Ping Zhao , Liangliang Yuan

This paper develops a novel methodology for testing the goodness-of-fit of sparse parametric regression models based on projected empirical processes and p-value combination, where the covariate dimension may substantially exceed the sample…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-01-05 Falong Tan , Shan Tang , Lixing Zhu
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