testPub Date : 2023-09-21DOI: 10.1007/s11749-023-00888-5
Samuel Pawel, Frederik Aust, Leonhard Held, Eric-Jan Wagenmakers
{"title":"Power priors for replication studies","authors":"Samuel Pawel, Frederik Aust, Leonhard Held, Eric-Jan Wagenmakers","doi":"10.1007/s11749-023-00888-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11749-023-00888-5","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The ongoing replication crisis in science has increased interest in the methodology of replication studies. We propose a novel Bayesian analysis approach using power priors: The likelihood of the original study’s data is raised to the power of $$alpha $$ <mml:math xmlns:mml=\"http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML\"> <mml:mi>α</mml:mi> </mml:math> , and then used as the prior distribution in the analysis of the replication data. Posterior distribution and Bayes factor hypothesis tests related to the power parameter $$alpha $$ <mml:math xmlns:mml=\"http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML\"> <mml:mi>α</mml:mi> </mml:math> quantify the degree of compatibility between the original and replication study. Inferences for other parameters, such as effect sizes, dynamically borrow information from the original study. The degree of borrowing depends on the conflict between the two studies. The practical value of the approach is illustrated on data from three replication studies, and the connection to hierarchical modeling approaches explored. We generalize the known connection between normal power priors and normal hierarchical models for fixed parameters and show that normal power prior inferences with a beta prior on the power parameter $$alpha $$ <mml:math xmlns:mml=\"http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML\"> <mml:mi>α</mml:mi> </mml:math> align with normal hierarchical model inferences using a generalized beta prior on the relative heterogeneity variance $$I^2$$ <mml:math xmlns:mml=\"http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML\"> <mml:msup> <mml:mi>I</mml:mi> <mml:mn>2</mml:mn> </mml:msup> </mml:math> . The connection illustrates that power prior modeling is unnatural from the perspective of hierarchical modeling since it corresponds to specifying priors on a relative rather than an absolute heterogeneity scale.","PeriodicalId":101465,"journal":{"name":"test","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136135886","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Gender wage difference estimation at quantile levels using sample survey data","authors":"Mihaela-Cătălina Anastasiade-Guinand, Alina Matei, Yves Tillé","doi":"10.1007/s11749-023-00885-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11749-023-00885-8","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This paper is motivated by the growing interest in estimating gender wage differences in official statistics. The wage of an employee is hypothetically a reflection of her or his characteristics, such as education level or work experience. It is possible that men and women with the same characteristics earn different wages. Our goal is to estimate the differences between wages at different quantiles, using sample survey data within a superpopulation framework. To do this, we use a parametric approach based on conditional distributions of the wages in function of some auxiliary information, as well as a counterfactual distribution. We show in our simulation studies that the use of auxiliary information well correlated with the wages reduces the variance of the counterfactual quantile estimates compared to those of the competitors. Since, in general, wage distributions are heavy-tailed, the interest is to model wages by using heavy-tailed distributions like the GB2 distribution. We illustrate the approach using this distribution and the wages for men and women using simulated and real data from the Swiss Federal Statistical Office.","PeriodicalId":101465,"journal":{"name":"test","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135014871","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
testPub Date : 2023-09-15DOI: 10.1007/s11749-023-00887-6
Mingao Yuan
{"title":"On the Randić index and its variants of network data","authors":"Mingao Yuan","doi":"10.1007/s11749-023-00887-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11749-023-00887-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":101465,"journal":{"name":"test","volume":"237 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135352740","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
testPub Date : 2023-09-14DOI: 10.1007/s11749-023-00886-7
Marie Perrot-Dockès, Gilles Blanchard, Pierre Neuvial, Etienne Roquain
{"title":"Selective inference for false discovery proportion in a hidden Markov model","authors":"Marie Perrot-Dockès, Gilles Blanchard, Pierre Neuvial, Etienne Roquain","doi":"10.1007/s11749-023-00886-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11749-023-00886-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":101465,"journal":{"name":"test","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134911663","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
testPub Date : 2023-09-13DOI: 10.1007/s11749-023-00884-9
Rahul Ghosal, Arnab Maity
{"title":"Variable selection in function-on-scalar single-index model via the alternating direction method of multipliers","authors":"Rahul Ghosal, Arnab Maity","doi":"10.1007/s11749-023-00884-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11749-023-00884-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":101465,"journal":{"name":"test","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135785111","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
testPub Date : 2023-09-12DOI: 10.1007/s11749-023-00878-7
Małgorzata Łazȩcka, Bartosz Kołodziejek, Jan Mielniczuk
{"title":"Analysis of conditional randomisation and permutation schemes with application to conditional independence testing","authors":"Małgorzata Łazȩcka, Bartosz Kołodziejek, Jan Mielniczuk","doi":"10.1007/s11749-023-00878-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11749-023-00878-7","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract We study properties of two resampling scenarios: Conditional Randomisation and Conditional Permutation schemes, which are relevant for testing conditional independence of discrete random variables X and Y given a random variable Z . Namely, we investigate asymptotic behaviour of estimates of a vector of probabilities in such settings, establish their asymptotic normality and ordering between asymptotic covariance matrices. The results are used to derive asymptotic distributions of the empirical Conditional Mutual Information in those set-ups. Somewhat unexpectedly, the distributions coincide for the two scenarios, despite differences in the asymptotic distributions of the estimates of probabilities. We also prove validity of permutation p -values for the Conditional Permutation scheme. The above results justify consideration of conditional independence tests based on resampled p -values and on the asymptotic chi-square distribution with an adjusted number of degrees of freedom. We show in numerical experiments that when the ratio of the sample size to the number of possible values of the triple exceeds 0.5, the test based on the asymptotic distribution with the adjustment made on a limited number of permutations is a viable alternative to the exact test for both the Conditional Permutation and the Conditional Randomisation scenarios. Moreover, there is no significant difference between the performance of exact tests for Conditional Permutation and Randomisation schemes, the latter requiring knowledge of conditional distribution of X given Z , and the same conclusion is true for both adaptive tests.","PeriodicalId":101465,"journal":{"name":"test","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135826240","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
testPub Date : 2023-08-29DOI: 10.1007/s11749-023-00880-z
Ye Tian, Yang Feng
{"title":"Comments on: Statistical Inference and Large-scale Multiple Testing for High-dimensional Regression Models","authors":"Ye Tian, Yang Feng","doi":"10.1007/s11749-023-00880-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11749-023-00880-z","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":101465,"journal":{"name":"test","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136248421","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
testPub Date : 2023-05-05DOI: 10.1007/s11749-023-00863-0
Laura Freijeiro-González, Manuel Febrero-Bande, Wenceslao González-Manteiga
{"title":"Correction: Novel specification tests for synchronous additive concurrent model formulation based on martingale difference divergence","authors":"Laura Freijeiro-González, Manuel Febrero-Bande, Wenceslao González-Manteiga","doi":"10.1007/s11749-023-00863-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11749-023-00863-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":101465,"journal":{"name":"test","volume":"102 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136229979","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}