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

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 estim...

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Published in:arXiv.org 2017-08
Main Authors: Chen, Xiongzhi, Doerge, Rebecca W, Heyse, Joseph F
Format: Article
Language:English
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Hypotheses
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Summary: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.
ISSN:2331-8422
DOI:10.48550/arxiv.1410.4274