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We propose a new method for predicting multiple missing links in partially observed networks while controlling the false discovery rate (FDR), a largely unresolved challenge in network analysis. The main difficulty lies in handling complex…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-07-10 Wenqin Du , Wanteng Ma , Dong Xia , Yuan Zhang , Wen Zhou

Multiple testing literature contains ample research on controlling false discoveries for hypotheses classified according to one criterion, which we refer to as one-way classified hypotheses. Although simultaneous classification of…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-03-12 Shinjini Nandi , Sanat K. Sarkar

Modern applications of conformal inference to multiple testing problems, such as outlier detection and candidate selection, often involve selecting test samples whose conformal p-values fall below a threshold. The quality of such methods is…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-05-21 Ziang Song , Ying Jin , Emmanuel J. Candès

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

False discovery rate (FDR) is a common way to control the number of false discoveries in multiple testing. There are a number of approaches available for controlling FDR. However, for functional test statistics, which are discretized into…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-12-03 Tomáš Mrkvička , Mari Myllymäki

The effective utilization of structural information in data while ensuring statistical validity poses a significant challenge in false discovery rate (FDR) analyses. Conformal inference provides rigorous theory for grounding complex machine…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-06-18 Zinan Zhao , Wenguang Sun

In a one-way analysis-of-variance (ANOVA) model, the number of all pairwise comparisons can be large even when there are only a moderate number of groups. Motivated by this, we consider a regime with a growing number of groups, and prove…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-12-12 Weidong Liu , Dennis Leung , Qiman Shao

The mitigation of false positives is an important issue when conducting multiple hypothesis testing. The most popular paradigm for false positives mitigation in high-dimensional applications is via the control of the false discovery rate…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-07-17 Hien D. Nguyen , Yohan Yee , Geoffrey J. McLachlan , Jason P. Lerch

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

We consider multiple testing with false discovery rate (FDR) control when p-values have discrete and heterogeneous null distributions. We propose a new estimator of the proportion of true null hypotheses and demonstrate that it is less…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-03-15 Xiongzhi Chen , Rebecca W. Doerge , Joseph F. Heyse

Controlling the false discovery rate (FDR) is a popular approach to multiple testing, variable selection, and related problems of simultaneous inference. In many contemporary applications, models are not specified by discrete variables,…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-04-16 Mateo Díaz , Venkat Chandrasekaran

There has been recent interest in extending the ideas of False Discovery Rates (FDR) to variable selection in regression settings. Traditionally the FDR in these settings has been defined in terms of the coefficients of the full regression…

Methodology · Statistics 2013-02-12 Max Grazier G'Sell , Trevor Hastie , Robert Tibshirani

Obtaining high-quality labels for large datasets is expensive, requiring massive annotations from human experts. While AI models offer a cost-effective alternative by predicting labels, their label quality is compromised by the unavoidable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Huipeng Huang , Wenbo Liao , Huajun Xi , Hao Zeng , Mengchen Zhao , Hongxin Wei

In this work we study an adaptive step-down procedure for testing $m$ hypotheses. It stems from the repeated use of the false discovery rate controlling the linear step-up procedure (sometimes called BH), and makes use of the critical…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2009-04-01 Yulia Gavrilov , Yoav Benjamini , Sanat K. Sarkar

E-values have gained attention as potential alternatives to p-values as measures of uncertainty, significance and evidence. In brief, e-values are realized by random variables with expectation at most one under the null; examples include…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-12-16 Ruodu Wang , Aaditya Ramdas

False discovery rates (FDR) are an essential component of statistical inference, representing the propensity for an observed result to be mistaken. FDR estimates should accompany observed results to help the user contextualize the relevance…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-10-12 Megan Hollister Murray , Jeffrey D. Blume

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

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

Stability and reproducibility are essential considerations in various applications of statistical methods. False Discovery Rate (FDR) control methods are able to control false signals in scientific discoveries. However, many FDR control…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-12-22 Jiajun Sun , Zhanrui Cai , Wei Zhong

In this paper we introduce and investigate a new rejection curve for asymptotic control of the false discovery rate (FDR) in multiple hypotheses testing problems. We first give a heuristic motivation for this new curve and propose some…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2009-03-31 Helmut Finner , Thorsten Dickhaus , Markus Roters