Stepup procedures for control of generalizations of the familywise error rate

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DOI10.1214/009053606000000461zbMATH Open1246.62172arXivmath/0611266OpenAlexW3098682883MaRDI QIDQ449953FDOQ449953


Authors: Joseph P. Romano, Azeem M. Shaikh Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 3 September 2012

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

Abstract: Consider the multiple testing problem of testing null hypotheses H1,...,Hs. A classical approach to dealing with the multiplicity problem is to restrict attention to procedures that control the familywise error rate (mathitFWER), the probability of even one false rejection. But if s is large, control of the mathitFWER is so stringent that the ability of a procedure that controls the mathitFWER to detect false null hypotheses is limited. It is therefore desirable to consider other measures of error control. This article considers two generalizations of the mathitFWER. The first is the kmathitFWER, in which one is willing to tolerate k or more false rejections for some fixed kgeq1. The second is based on the false discovery proportion (mathitFDP), defined to be the number of false rejections divided by the total number of rejections (and defined to be 0 if there are no rejections). Benjamini and Hochberg [J. Roy. Statist. Soc. Ser. B 57 (1995) 289--300] proposed control of the false discovery rate (mathitFDR), by which they meant that, for fixed alpha, E(mathitFDP)leqalpha. Here, we consider control of the mathitFDP in the sense that, for fixed gamma and alpha, PmathitFDP>gammaleqalpha. Beginning with any nondecreasing sequence of constants and p-values for the individual tests, we derive stepup procedures that control each of these two measures of error control without imposing any assumptions on the dependence structure of the p-values. We use our results to point out a few interesting connections with some closely related stepdown procedures. We then compare and contrast two mathitFDP-controlling procedures obtained using our results with the stepup procedure for control of the mathitFDR of Benjamini and Yekutieli [Ann. Statist. 29 (2001) 1165--1188].


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0611266




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