Multiple testing with discrete data: proportion of true null hypotheses and two adaptive FDR procedures

DOI10.1002/BIMJ.201700157MaRDI QIDQ4584975zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Xiongzhi Chen, Rebecca W. Doerge, Joseph F. Heyse

Publication date 5 September 2018

Published in Biometrical Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1410.4274

zbMATH Keywords

discrete \(p\) valuesfalse discovery rateheterogeneous null distributionsmultiple hypotheses testingmultiple testingproportion of true null hypotheses

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Paired and multiple comparisons; multiple testing (62J15) Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis (62P10)

Abstract: We consider multiple testing with false discovery rate (FDR) control when p-values have discrete and heterogeneous null distributions. We propose a new estimator of the proportion of true null hypotheses and demonstrate that it is less upwardly biased than Storey's estimator and two other estimators. The new estimator induces two adaptive procedures, i.e., an adaptive Benjamini-Hochberg (BH) procedure and an adaptive Benjamini-Hochberg-Heyse (BHH) procedure. We prove that the the adaptive BH procedure is conservative non-asymptotically. Through simulation studies, we show that these procedures are usually more powerful than their non-adaptive counterparts and that the adaptive BHH procedure is usually more powerful than the adaptive BH procedure and a procedure based on randomized p-value. The adaptive procedures are applied to a study of HIV vaccine efficacy, where they identify more differentially polymorphic positions than the BH procedure at the same FDR level.

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