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We develop a technique to improve the power of any e-value by a simple randomization involving one independent uniform random variable. Using this framework, we show that two procedures for false discovery rate (FDR) control -- the…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-12-15 Ziyu Xu , Aaditya Ramdas

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 large-scale multiple hypothesis testing problems, the false discovery exceedance (FDX) provides a desirable alternative to the widely used false discovery rate (FDR) when the false discovery proportion (FDP) is highly variable. We…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-04-21 Pallavi Basu , Luella Fu , Alessio Saretto , Wenguang Sun

In this paper, we present novel methodologies that incorporate auxiliary variables for multiple hypotheses testing related to the main point of interest while effectively controlling the false discovery rate. When dealing with multiple…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-02-23 Seohwa Hwang , Mark Louie Ramos , DoHwan Park , Junyong Park , Johan Lim , Erin Green

This research deals with massive multiple hypothesis testing. First regarding multiple tests as an estimation problem under a proper population model, an error measurement called Erroneous Rejection Ratio (ERR) is introduced and related to…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2007-06-13 Cheng Cheng

We develop a new class of distribution--free multiple testing rules for false discovery rate (FDR) control under general dependence. A key element in our proposal is a symmetrized data aggregation (SDA) approach to incorporating the…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-05-27 Lilun Du , Xu Guo , Wenguang Sun , Changliang Zou

In modern scientific experiments, we frequently encounter data that have large dimensions, and in some experiments, such high dimensional data arrive sequentially rather than full data being available all at a time. We develop multiple…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-06-09 Rahul Roy , Shyamal K. De , Subir Kumar Bhandari

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

This work concerns controlling the false discovery rate (FDR) in networks under communication constraints. We present sample-and-forward, a flexible and communication-efficient version of the Benjamini-Hochberg (BH) procedure for multihop…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-17 Mehrdad Pournaderi , Yu Xiang

Many important tasks of large-scale recommender systems can be naturally cast as testing multiple linear forms for noisy matrix completion. These problems, however, present unique challenges because of the subtle bias-and-variance tradeoff…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-03-12 Wanteng Ma , Lilun Du , Dong Xia , Ming Yuan

In applications such as clinical safety analysis, the data of the experiments usually consists of frequency counts. In the analysis of such data, researchers often face the problem of multiple testing based on discrete test statistics,…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-08-15 Yalin Zhu , Wenge Guo

Multiple testing problems arising in modern scientific applications can involve simultaneously testing thousands or even millions of hypotheses, with relatively few true signals. In this paper, we consider the multiple testing problem where…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-06-28 Ang Li , Rina Foygel Barber

Model-free knockoffs is a recently proposed technique for identifying covariates that is likely to have an effect on a response variable. The method is an efficient method to control the false discovery rate in hypothesis tests for separate…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-03-29 Lars Holden , Kristoffer Hellton

This analysis report presents an in-depth exploration of multiple hypothesis testing in the context of Genomics RNA-seq differential expression (DE) analysis, with a primary focus on techniques designed to control the false discovery rate…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-07-01 Shyam Gupta

Controlling False Discovery Rate (FDR) while leveraging the side information of multiple hypothesis testing is an emerging research topic in modern data science. Existing methods rely on the test-level covariates while ignoring metrics…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-10-10 Lin Qiu , Nils Murrugarra-Llerena , Vítor Silva , Lin Lin , Vernon M. Chinchilli

One important partition of algorithms for controlling the false discovery rate (FDR) in multiple testing is into offline and online algorithms. The first generally achieve significantly higher power of discovery, while the latter allow…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-03-05 Tijana Zrnic , Daniel L. Jiang , Aaditya Ramdas , Michael I. Jordan

We consider the problem of identifying whether findings replicate from one study of high dimension to another, when the primary study guides the selection of hypotheses to be examined in the follow-up study as well as when there is no…

Methodology · Statistics 2014-01-28 Marina Bogomolov , Ruth Heller

Multiple hypothesis testing is a central topic in statistics, but despite abundant work on the false discovery rate (FDR) and the corresponding Type-II error concept known as the false non-discovery rate (FNR), a fine-grained understanding…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2017-05-17 Maxim Rabinovich , Aaditya Ramdas , Michael I. Jordan , Martin J. Wainwright

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

This paper studies the semi-supervised novelty detection problem where a set of "typical" measurements is available to the researcher. Motivated by recent advances in multiple testing and conformal inference, we propose AdaDetect, a…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-10-26 Ariane Marandon , Lihua Lei , David Mary , Etienne Roquain