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Estimating the Number and Effect Sizes of Non-null Hypotheses
Jennifer Brennan · Ramya Korlakai Vinayak · Kevin Jamieson

Tue Jul 14 08:00 AM -- 08:45 AM & Tue Jul 14 07:00 PM -- 07:45 PM (PDT) @ Virtual
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We study the problem of estimating the distribution of effect sizes (the mean of the test statistic under the alternate hypothesis) in a multiple testing setting. Knowing this distribution allows us to calculate the power (type II error) of any experimental design. We show that it is possible to estimate this distribution using an inexpensive pilot experiment, which takes significantly fewer samples than would be required by an experiment that identified the discoveries. Our estimator can be used to guarantee the number of discoveries that will be made using a given experimental design in a future experiment. We prove that this simple and computationally efficient estimator enjoys a number of favorable theoretical properties, and demonstrate its effectiveness on data from a gene knockout experiment on influenza inhibition in Drosophila.

Keywords: Learning Theory · Statistical Learning Theory
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Jennifer Brennan (University of Washington)
Ramya Korlakai Vinayak (University of Washington)
Kevin Jamieson (University of Washington)

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