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Ruth Heller
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2015
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Mathematical Statistics
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English
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Replicability analysis aims to identify the findings that replicated across independent studies that examine the same features. We provide powerful novel replicability analysis procedures for two studies for FWER and for FDR control on the replicability claims. The suggested procedures first select the promising features from each study solely based on that study, and then test for replicability only the features that were selected in both studies. We incorporate the plug-in estimates of the fraction of null hypotheses in one study among the selected hypotheses by the other study. Since the fraction of nulls in one study among the selected features from the other study is typically small, the power gain can be remarkable. We provide theoretical guarantees for the control of the appropriate error rates, as well as simulations that demonstrate the excellent power properties of the suggested procedures. We demonstrate the usefulness of our procedures on real data examples from two application fields: behavioural genetics and microarray studies.
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