E-values as unnormalized weights in multiple testing

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Publication date: 26 April 2022

Abstract: We study how to combine p-values and e-values, and design multiple testing procedures where both p-values and e-values are available for every hypothesis. Our results provide a new perspective on multiple testing with data-driven weights: while standard weighted multiple testing methods require the weights to deterministically add up to the number of hypotheses being tested, we show that this normalization is not required when the weights are e-values that are independent of the p-values. Such e-values can be obtained in the meta-analysis setting wherein a primary dataset is used to compute p-values, and an independent secondary dataset is used to compute e-values. Going beyond meta-analysis, we showcase settings wherein independent e-values and p-values can be constructed on a single dataset itself. Our procedures can result in a massive increase in power, especially if the non-null hypotheses have e-values much larger than one.

Has companion code repository: https://github.com/nignatiadis/evalues-as-weights-paper

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