A new approach to address multiplicity in hypothesis testing with constraints

We propose a novel approach named the covering principle to construct multiple testing procedures from the perspective of rejection regions in the sample space, which is different from the closed testing and the partitioning principles working in the parameter space. We prove that multiple testing p...

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Published inCommunications in statistics. Theory and methods Vol. 50; no. 1; pp. 35 - 60
Main Authors Li, Huajiang, Zhou, Hong
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Philadelphia Taylor & Francis 02.01.2021
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Subjects
closed testing principle
Computer simulation
covering principle
Familywise error rate
Hypotheses
Hypothesis testing
multiple testing
partitioning principle
Test procedures
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Summary:We propose a novel approach named the covering principle to construct multiple testing procedures from the perspective of rejection regions in the sample space, which is different from the closed testing and the partitioning principles working in the parameter space. We prove that multiple testing procedures based on the covering principle strongly control the familywise error rate if the type I error is strongly controlled in each decomposed subfamily. Computer simulation shows that the new method rejects more hypotheses on the primary endpoints in most scenarios compared to both the graphical and the gate-keeping approaches.
ISSN:0361-0926
1532-415X
DOI:10.1080/03610926.2019.1628989