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Asymptotic minimaxity of the penalized model-selection procedure
Let model selection mean adaptive selection of nonzero means, and let the underlying estimand be , belonging to one of the parameter spaces and considered under one of the loss…
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Linear worst-case FDR bound for the Benjamini--Hochberg procedure
Linear worst-case FDR conjecture. There exists a universal constant such that, for every nominal level , the worst-case FDR is at most .
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BH FDR control conjecture for correlated two-sided Gaussian tests
BH FDR control conjecture. For every , every , every , and every correlation matrix , the Benjamini--Hochberg procedure sati…
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Extension of horseshoe multiple-testing results to the Spike and Slab LASSO prior
Extension conjecture. All the results of the paper should remain valid for the Spike and Slab LASSO prior.
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Holm's admissibility conjecture
Let Holm's multiple-testing procedure be considered under the assumptions in force for the procedure, with admissibility meaning that it cannot be uniformly improved without invali…
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Optimal augmentation size for BONuS under a subspace prior
Optimal augmentation-size conjecture. Under this regime,
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Asymptotic equivalence of In-sample BH and CRT + BH
Consider the oracle procedure In-sample BH and the non-oracle procedure CRT + BH in the multivariate normal means testing problem. Both procedures produce -values, and their exp…
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Optimal augmentation size for BONuS under a point-mass prior
Let be the choice of augmentation size that maximizes the power of BONuS for a point-mass prior, with fixed. Optimal augmentation-size conjecture.…
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Extension of heavy-tailed combination-test theory to slowly increasing numbers of hypotheses
Extension conjecture. The theory can extend to scenarios where increases slowly as decreases, similar to results shown for special cases.
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Equivalence of the compound eBH and standard compound eBH procedures
Equivalence conjecture. The compound procedure and the standard compound eBH procedure are equivalent, so that
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Admissibility of randomized p-merging functions from convex calibrators
Let be a positive integer, let be admissible calibrators, and let . Suppose that, for each , is conve…
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Asymptotic equivalence of full and Gaussian maxT power
Let be the matrix appearing in the maxT procedure, let denote the all-ones vector, and define … Suppose that has independent and identically distributed…
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Extension of the optimal FDR-control results to the fixed non-null model
The two-group mixture model has independently drawn hypothesis labels, with each hypothesis non-null with probability . In the fixed non-null model, the number of non-null hy…
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EPoEdCe asymptotic optimality conjecture
Let with , let and slowly enough. Suppose that, for every , converges weak…
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PoPCe and PoEdCe asymptotic optimality conjecture
Let with , let and , and assume the Bayesian linear model of Assumption. Let be e…
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Limiting FDP and TPP conjecture for TPoP and CPoP
Limiting FDP and TPP conjecture. The limiting false discovery proportion and true positive proportion of TPoP satisfy
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Subbotin-noise adaptivity of the empirical Bayes ell-value procedure
Consider the multiple testing setting of Theorem, with Subbotin noise and risk bound . The empirical Bayes -value procedure is the procedure defined in.…
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Conjecture on the conservativeness of skipped-layer p-values
Conservativeness conjecture. The -value will only be slightly conservative if the number of layers skipped is small relative to the size of the subsets considered.
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Extension of RESS false discovery rate results to faster-growing dimensions
Conjecture on faster dimensional growth. Similar theoretical results for the RESS and refined RESS methods should also hold when
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Gaussian comparison conjecture for maxima under variance and increment domination
Let and be -dimensional Gaussian vectors with common mean and covariance matrices…
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Tightness of the instance-wise Monte Carlo sample bound
Let be the total number of Monte Carlo samples, and consider the instance-wise upper bound on given for the confidence bounds…
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Optimality of closed testing for FDP control beyond finite testing problems
Closed-testing optimality conjecture. The optimality of closed testing will translate to FDP control in countable and even uncountable multiple testing problems, when competing met…
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Asymptotic FWER control for the Dirichlet two-sided stepdown and pre-test methods
Let and be distribution functions for two samples, and let be the target familywise error rate. Under assumptions (a:iid) and (a:F), consider the Dirichlet two-…
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Accuracy of the multiple-testing approximation formulas beyond the stated ranges
Let denote the sample size and let denote the familywise error rate, with approximation formulas relating the familywise error rate to the pointwise type I error rate.…
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Uniformity of the basic multiple-testing methods under drifting population distributions
The paper considers asymptotic uniformity when the population distribution is allowed to vary with the sample size. Uniformity conjecture. The basic multiple-testing methods are co…