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Type Journal Article
Scope Discipline-based scholarship
Title Balanced control of generalized error rates
Organization Unit
Authors
  • Joseph P Romano
  • Michael Wolf
Item Subtype Original Work
Refereed Yes
Status Published in final form
Language
  • English
Journal Title Annals of Statistics
Publisher Institute of Mathematical Statistics
Geographical Reach international
ISSN 0090-5364
Volume 38
Number 1
Page Range 598 - 633
Date 2010
Abstract Text Consider the problem of testing s hypotheses simultaneously. In this paper, we derive methods which control the generalized family-wise error rate given by the probability of k or more false rejections, abbreviated k-FWER. We derive both single-step and step-down procedures that control the k-FWER in finite samples or asymptotically, depending on the situation. Moreover, the procedures are asymptotically balanced in an appropriate sense. We briefly consider control of the average number of false rejections. Additionally, we consider the false discovery proportion (FDP), defined as the number of false rejections divided by the total number of rejections (and defined to be 0 if there are no rejections). Here, the goal is to construct methods which satisfy, for given γ and α, P{FDP>γ}≤α, at least asymptotically. Special attention is paid to the construction of methods which implicitly take into account the dependence structure of the individual test statistics in order to further increase the ability to detect false null hypotheses. A general resampling and subsampling approach is presented which achieves these objectives, at least asymptotically.
Digital Object Identifier 10.1214/09-AOS734
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