Approximately unbiased tests of regions using multistep-multiscale bootstrap resampling

DOI10.1214/009053604000000823zbMATH Open1078.62045arXivmath/0508602OpenAlexW3101813170MaRDI QIDQ142180FDOQ142180

Authors: Hidetoshi Shimodaira 

Publication date: 1 December 2004

Published in: The Annals of Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Approximately unbiased tests based on bootstrap probabilities are considered for the exponential family of distributions with unknown expectation parameter vector, where the null hypothesis is represented as an arbitrary-shaped region with smooth boundaries. This problem has been discussed previously in Efron and Tibshirani [Ann. Statist. 26 (1998) 1687-1718], and a corrected p-value with second-order asymptotic accuracy is calculated by the two-level bootstrap of Efron, Halloran and Holmes [Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 93 (1996) 13429-13434] based on the ABC bias correction of Efron [J. Amer. Statist. Assoc. 82 (1987) 171-185]. Our argument is an extension of their asymptotic theory, where the geometry, such as the signed distance and the curvature of the boundary, plays an important role. We give another calculation of the corrected p-value without finding the ``nearest point on the boundary to the observation, which is required in the two-level bootstrap and is an implementational burden in complicated problems. The key idea is to alter the sample size of the replicated dataset from that of the observed dataset. The frequency of the replicates falling in the region is counted for several sample sizes, and then the p-value is calculated by looking at the change in the frequencies along the changing sample sizes. This is the multiscale bootstrap of Shimodaira [Systematic Biology 51 (2002) 492-508], which is third-order accurate for the multivariate normal model. Here we introduce a newly devised multistep-multiscale bootstrap, calculating a third-order accurate p-value for the exponential family of distributions.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0508602

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonparametric hypothesis testing (62G10) Nonparametric statistical resampling methods (62G09)

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