Testing for outliers with conformal p-values

DOI10.1214/22-aos2244arXiv2104.08279OpenAlexW3156397721MaRDI QIDQ6046306

Emmanuel J. Candès, Matteo Sesia, Yaniv Romano, Stephen Bates, Lihua Lei

Publication date: 10 May 2023

Published in: The Annals of Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.08279

zbMATH Keywords

positive dependencefalse discovery rateconformal inferenceout-of-distribution

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonparametric hypothesis testing (62G10) Nonparametric tolerance and confidence regions (62G15) Paired and multiple comparisons; multiple testing (62J15)

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