Meta-analysis of mid-p-values: some new results based on the convex order
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Author(s)
Rubin-Delanchy, Patrick
Heard, NA
Lawson, Daniel
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
The mid-p-value is a proposed improvement on the ordinary p-value for the case where the test statistic is partially or completely discrete. In this case, the ordinary p-value is conservative, meaning that its null distribution is larger than a uniform distribution on the unit interval, in the usual stochastic order. The mid-p-value is not conservative. However, its null distribution is dominated by the uniform distribution in a different stochastic order, called the convex order. The property leads us to discover some new finite-sample and asymptotic bounds on functions of mid-p-values, which can be used to combine results from different hypothesis tests conservatively, yet more powerfully, using mid-p-values rather than p-values. Our methodology is demonstrated on real data from a cyber-security application.
Date Issued
2018-08-06
Date Acceptance
2018-04-01
Citation
Journal of the American Statistical Association, 2018, 114 (527), pp.1105-1112
ISSN
0162-1459
Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Start Page
1105
End Page
1112
Journal / Book Title
Journal of the American Statistical Association
Volume
114
Issue
527
Copyright Statement
© 2018 The Authors. Published with license by Taylor and Francis.
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Subjects
Science & Technology
Physical Sciences
Statistics & Probability
Mathematics
Convex order
Cyber-security
Meta-analysis
Network
p-Value
FALSE DISCOVERY RATE
CONFIDENCE-INTERVALS
TESTS
FUZZY
Convex order
Cyber-security
Meta-analysis
Network
p-Value
0104 Statistics
1403 Econometrics
1603 Demography
Statistics & Probability
Publication Status
Published
Date Publish Online
2018-05-03