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Testing mutual independence for high-dimensional observations is a fundamental statistical challenge. Popular tests based on linear and simple rank correlations are known to be incapable of detecting non-linear, non-monotone relationships,…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-02-06 Mathias Drton , Fang Han , Hongjian Shi

The standard paired-sample testing approach in the multidimensional setting applies multiple univariate tests on the individual features, followed by p-value adjustments. Such an approach suffers when the data carry numerous features. A…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-09-29 Ioannis Bargiotas , Argyris Kalogeratos , Nicolas Vayatis

A depth-based rank sum statistic for multivariate data introduced by Liu and Singh [J. Amer. Statist. Assoc. 88 (1993) 252--260] as an extension of the Wilcoxon rank sum statistic for univariate data has been used in multivariate rank tests…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2011-11-10 Yijun Zuo , Xuming He

We investigate the problem of testing the global null in the high-dimensional regression models when the feature dimension $p$ grows proportionally to the number of observations $n$. Despite a number of prior work studying this problem,…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-10-06 Yue Li , Ilmun Kim , Yuting Wei

Heavy-tailed combination tests, such as the Cauchy combination test and harmonic mean p-value method, are widely used for testing global null hypotheses by aggregating dependent p-values. However, their theoretical guarantees under general…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-08-11 Lin Gui , Tiantian Mao , Jingshu Wang , Ruodu Wang

In this paper, we investigate the adequacy testing problem of high-dimensional factor-augmented regression model. Existing test procedures perform not well under dense alternatives. To address this critical issue, we introduce a novel…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-04-04 Yanmei Shi , Leheng Cai , Xu Guo , Shurong Zheng

We study the problem of testing $H_0: \xi^\top\beta=t_0$ in high-dimensional sparse linear regression with Gaussian random design and unknown design covariance. The loading vector $\xi$ is arbitrary, and the exact sparsity level $k$ is…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-21 Jie Xie , Dongming Huang

In recent years, there has been considerable research on testing alphas in high-dimensional linear factor pricing models. In our study, we introduce a novel max-type test procedure that performs well under sparse alternatives. Furthermore,…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-04-11 Chenxi Zhao , Ping Zhao , Long Feng , Zhaojun Wang

Statistical analysis of high-dimensional functional times series arises in various applications. Under this scenario, in addition to the intrinsic infinite-dimensionality of functional data, the number of functional variables can grow with…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-01-14 Qin Fang , Shaojun Guo , Xinghao Qiao

We consider the problem of testing the equality of conditional distributions of a response variable given a vector of covariates between two populations. Such a hypothesis testing problem can be motivated from various machine learning and…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-02-24 Xiaoyu Hu , Jing Lei

Testing cross-sectional independence in panel data models is of fundamental importance in econometric analysis with high-dimensional panels. Recently, econometricians began to turn their attention to the problem in the presence of serial…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-09-18 Hongfei Wang , Binghui Liu , Long Feng , Yanyuan Ma

We propose a methodology for testing linear hypothesis in high-dimensional linear models. The proposed test does not impose any restriction on the size of the model, i.e. model sparsity or the loading vector representing the hypothesis.…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-07-09 Yinchu Zhu , Jelena Bradic

While the SLIM approach obtained high ranking-accuracy in many experiments in the literature, it is also known for its high computational cost of learning its parameters from data. For this reason, we focus in this paper on variants of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-05-01 Harald Steck

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

We introduce a new method for two-sample testing of high-dimensional linear regression coefficients without assuming that those coefficients are individually estimable. The procedure works by first projecting the matrices of covariates and…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-05-11 Fengnan Gao , Tengyao Wang

Rank-based approaches are among the most popular nonparametric methods for univariate data in tackling statistical problems such as hypothesis testing due to their robustness and effectiveness. However, they are unsatisfactory for more…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-07-04 Doudou Zhou , Hao Chen

Focusing on polygenic signal detection in high dimensional genetic association studies of complex traits, we develop an adaptive test for generalized linear models to accommodate different alternatives. To facilitate valid post-selection…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-04-09 Yanyan Zhao , Lei Sun

We develop a new rank-based approach for univariate two-sample testing in the presence of missing data which makes no assumptions about the missingness mechanism. This approach is a theoretical extension of the Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney test…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-03-25 Yijin Zeng , Niall M. Adams , Dean A. Bodenham

Testing mutual independence among multiple random variables is a fundamental problem in statistics, with wide applications in genomics, finance, and neuroscience. In this paper, we propose a new class of tests for high-dimensional mutual…

Applications · Statistics 2026-01-28 Ping Zhao , Huifang Ma

We perform a finite sample analysis of the detection levels for sparse principal components of a high-dimensional covariance matrix. Our minimax optimal test is based on a sparse eigenvalue statistic. Alas, computing this test is known to…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2014-01-30 Quentin Berthet , Philippe Rigollet