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Thorsten Dickhaus
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2020
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Mathematical Statistics
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We are concerned with multiple test problems with composite null hypotheses and the estimation of the proportion $pi_{0}$ of true null hypotheses. The Schweder-Spjo tvoll estimator $hat{pi}_0$ utilizes marginal $p$-values and only works properly if the $p$-values that correspond to the true null hypotheses are uniformly distributed on $[0,1]$ ($mathrm{Uni}[0,1]$-distributed). In the case of composite null hypotheses, marginal $p$-values are usually computed under least favorable parameter configurations (LFCs). Thus, they are stochastically larger than $mathrm{Uni}[0,1]$ under non-LFCs in the null hypotheses. When using these LFC-based $p$-values, $hat{pi}_0$ tends to overestimate $pi_{0}$. We introduce a new way of randomizing $p$-values that depends on a tuning parameter $cin[0,1]$, such that $c=0$ and $c=1$ lead to $mathrm{Uni}[0,1]$-distributed $p$-values, which are independent of the data, and to the original LFC-based $p$-values, respectively. For a certain value $c=c^{star}$ the bias of $hat{pi}_0$ is minimized when using our randomized $p$-values. This often also entails a smaller mean squared error of the estimator as compared to the usage of the LFC-based $p$-values. We analyze these points theoretically, and we demonstrate them numerically in computer simulations under various standard statistical models.
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