Cauchy Combination Test: A Powerful Test With Analytic p-Value Calculation Under Arbitrary Dependency Structures

DOI10.1080/01621459.2018.1554485zbMath1437.62163arXiv1808.09011OpenAlexW2889418962WikidataQ100433989 ScholiaQ100433989MaRDI QIDQ3304861

Jun Xie, Yao-Wu Liu

Publication date: 3 August 2020

Published in: Journal of the American Statistical Association (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.09011

zbMATH Keywords

high-dimensional datacorrelation matrixCauchy distributionglobal hypothesis testingnonasymptotic approximationsparse alternative

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonparametric hypothesis testing (62G10) Asymptotic properties of nonparametric inference (62G20) Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis (62P10) Statistical aspects of big data and data science (62R07)

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Uses Software

• PLINK
• JEPEG

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