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Nonparametric relevance-shifted multiple testing procedures for the analysis of high-dimensional multivariate data with small sample sizes

  • Background: In many research areas it is necessary to find differences between treatment groups with several variables. For example, studies of microarray data seek to find a significant difference in location parameters from zero or one for ratios thereof for each variable. However, in some studies a significant deviation of the difference in locations from zero (or 1 in terms of the ratio) is biologically meaningless. A relevant difference or ratio is sought in such cases. Results: This article addresses the use of relevance-shifted tests on ratios for a multivariate parallel two-sample group design. Two empirical procedures are proposed which embed the relevanceshifted test on ratios. As both procedures test a hypothesis for each variable, the resulting multiple testing problem has to be considered. Hence, the procedures include a multiplicity correction. Both procedures are extensions of available procedures for point null hypotheses achieving exact control of the familywise error rate. Whereas the shift of the null hypothesis alone would give straight-forward solutions, the problems that are the reason for the empirical considerations discussed here arise by the fact that the shift is considered in both directions and the whole parameter space in between these two limits has to be accepted as null hypothesis. Conclusion: The first algorithm to be discussed uses a permutation algorithm, and is appropriate for designs with a moderately large number of observations. However, many experiments have limited sample sizes. Then the second procedure might be more appropriate, where multiplicity is corrected according to a concept of data-driven order of hypotheses.

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Author:Cornelia FrömkeGND, Ludwig A. Hothorn, Siegfried Kropf
URN:urn:nbn:de:1111-201602171315
DOI:https://doi.org/10.25968/opus-1132
DOI original:https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2105-9-54
Parent Title (English):BMC Bioinformatics
Document Type:Article
Language:English
Year of Completion:2008
Publishing Institution:Hochschule Hannover
Release Date:2017/07/31
Tag:multivariate data; testing
Volume:2008
Issue:9:54
Institutes:Fakultät III - Medien, Information und Design
DDC classes:510 Mathematik
Licence (German):License LogoCreative Commons - Namensnennung 2.0