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Using Weighted P-Values in Fisher's Method

Methodology 2020-06-19 v1 Machine Learning Statistics Theory Computation Statistics Theory

Abstract

Fisher's method prescribes a way to combine p-values from multiple experiments into a single p-value. However, the original method can only determine a combined p-value analytically if all constituent p-values are weighted equally. Here we present, with proof, a method to combine p-values with arbitrary weights.

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@article{arxiv.2006.10126,
  title  = {Using Weighted P-Values in Fisher's Method},
  author = {Arvind Thiagarajan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2006.10126},
  year   = {2020}
}

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6 pages

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