PROTEST: Nonparametric Testing of Hypotheses Enhanced by Experts' Utility Judgements
Instead of testing solely a precise hypothesis, it is often useful to enlarge it with alternatives that are deemed to differ from it negligibly. For instance, in a bioequivalence study one might consider the hypothesis that the concentration of an ingredient is exactly the same in two drugs. In such...
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Abstract | Instead of testing solely a precise hypothesis, it is often useful to enlarge it with alternatives that are deemed to differ from it negligibly. For instance, in a bioequivalence study one might consider the hypothesis that the concentration of an ingredient is exactly the same in two drugs. In such a context, it might be more relevant to test the enlarged hypothesis that the difference in concentration between the drugs is of no practical significance. While this concept is not alien to Bayesian statistics, applications remain confined to parametric settings and strategies on how to effectively harness experts' intuitions are often scarce or nonexistent. To resolve both issues, we introduce PROTEST, an accessible nonparametric testing framework that seamlessly integrates with Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods. We develop expanded versions of the model adherence, goodness-of-fit, quantile and two-sample tests. To demonstrate how PROTEST operates, we make use of examples, simulated studies - such as testing link functions in a binary regression setting, as well as a comparison between the performance of PROTEST and the PTtest (Holmes et al., 2015) - and an application with data on neuron spikes. Furthermore, we address the crucial issue of selecting the threshold - which controls how much a hypothesis is to be expanded - even when intuitions are limited or challenging to quantify. |
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AbstractList | Instead of testing solely a precise hypothesis, it is often useful to enlarge it with alternatives that are deemed to differ from it negligibly. For instance, in a bioequivalence study one might consider the hypothesis that the concentration of an ingredient is exactly the same in two drugs. In such a context, it might be more relevant to test the enlarged hypothesis that the difference in concentration between the drugs is of no practical significance. While this concept is not alien to Bayesian statistics, applications remain confined to parametric settings and strategies on how to effectively harness experts' intuitions are often scarce or nonexistent. To resolve both issues, we introduce PROTEST, an accessible nonparametric testing framework that seamlessly integrates with Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods. We develop expanded versions of the model adherence, goodness-of-fit, quantile and two-sample tests. To demonstrate how PROTEST operates, we make use of examples, simulated studies - such as testing link functions in a binary regression setting, as well as a comparison between the performance of PROTEST and the PTtest (Holmes et al., 2015) - and an application with data on neuron spikes. Furthermore, we address the crucial issue of selecting the threshold - which controls how much a hypothesis is to be expanded - even when intuitions are limited or challenging to quantify. Instead of testing solely a precise hypothesis, it is often useful to enlarge it with alternatives that are deemed to differ from it negligibly. For instance, in a bioequivalence study one might consider the hypothesis that the concentration of an ingredient is exactly the same in two drugs. In such a context, it might be more relevant to test the enlarged hypothesis that the difference in concentration between the drugs is of no practical significance. While this concept is not alien to Bayesian statistics, applications remain confined to parametric settings and strategies on how to effectively harness experts' intuitions are often scarce or nonexistent. To resolve both issues, we introduce PROTEST, an accessible nonparametric testing framework that seamlessly integrates with Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods. We develop expanded versions of the model adherence, goodness-of-fit, quantile and two-sample tests. To demonstrate how PROTEST operates, we make use of examples, simulated studies - such as testing link functions in a binary regression setting, as well as a comparison between the performance of PROTEST and the PTtest (Holmes et al., 2015) - and an application with data on neuron spikes. Furthermore, we address the crucial issue of selecting the threshold - which controls how much a hypothesis is to be expanded - even when intuitions are limited or challenging to quantify. |
Author | Lassance, Rodrigo F L Stern, Rafael B Izbicki, Rafael |
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