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A leave-p-out based estimation of the proportion of null hypotheses

Alain Celisse
Stéphane Robin

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In the multiple testing context, a challenging problem is the estimation of the proportion $\pi_0$ of true-null hypotheses. A large number of estimators of this quantity rely on identifiability assumptions that either appear to be violated on real data, or may be at least relaxed. Under independence, we propose an estimator $\widehat{\pi}_0$ based on density estimation using both histograms and cross-validation. Due to the strong connection between the false discovery rate (FDR) and $\pi_0$, many multiple testing procedures (MTP) designed to control the FDR may be improved by introducing an estimator of $\pi_0$. We provide an example of such an improvement (plug-in MTP) based on the procedure of Benjamini and Hochberg. Asymptotic optimality results may be derived for both $\widehat{\pi}_0$ and the resulting plug-in procedure. The latter ensures the desired asymptotic control of the FDR, while it is more powerful than the BH-procedure. Finally, we compare our estimator of $\pi_0$ with other widespread estimators in a wide range of simulations. We obtain better results than other tested methods in terms of mean square error (MSE) of the proposed estimator. Finally, both asymptotic optimality results and the interest in tightly estimating $\pi_0$ are confirmed (empirically) by results obtained with the plug-in MTP.
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hal-00270908 , version 1 (07-04-2008)

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Alain Celisse, Stéphane Robin. A leave-p-out based estimation of the proportion of null hypotheses. 2007. ⟨hal-00270908⟩
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