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Autor principal: Armstrong, Timothy B.
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Publicado: 2022
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contents Multiple testing adjustments, such as the Benjamini and Hochberg (1995) step-up procedure for controlling the false discovery rate (FDR), are typically applied to families of tests that control significance level in the classical sense: for each individual test, the probability of false rejection is no greater than the nominal level. In this paper, we consider tests that satisfy only a weaker notion of significance level control, in which the probability of false rejection need only be controlled on average over the hypotheses. We find that the Benjamini and Hochberg (1995) step-up procedure still controls FDR in the asymptotic regime with many weakly dependent $p$-values, and that certain adjustments for dependent $p$-values such as the Benjamini and Yekutieli (2001) procedure continue to yield FDR control in finite samples. Our results open the door to FDR controlling procedures in nonparametric and high dimensional settings where weakening the notion of inference allows for large power improvements.
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spellingShingle False Discovery Rate Adjustments for Average Significance Level Controlling Tests
Armstrong, Timothy B.
Methodology
Multiple testing adjustments, such as the Benjamini and Hochberg (1995) step-up procedure for controlling the false discovery rate (FDR), are typically applied to families of tests that control significance level in the classical sense: for each individual test, the probability of false rejection is no greater than the nominal level. In this paper, we consider tests that satisfy only a weaker notion of significance level control, in which the probability of false rejection need only be controlled on average over the hypotheses. We find that the Benjamini and Hochberg (1995) step-up procedure still controls FDR in the asymptotic regime with many weakly dependent $p$-values, and that certain adjustments for dependent $p$-values such as the Benjamini and Yekutieli (2001) procedure continue to yield FDR control in finite samples. Our results open the door to FDR controlling procedures in nonparametric and high dimensional settings where weakening the notion of inference allows for large power improvements.
title False Discovery Rate Adjustments for Average Significance Level Controlling Tests
topic Methodology
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.13686