The simultaneous testing of multiple hypotheses is common to the analysis of high-dimensional data sets. The two-group model, first proposed by Efron, identifies significant comparisons by allocating observations to a mixture of an empirical null and an alternative distribution. In the Bayesian nonparametrics literature, many approaches have suggested using mixtures of Dirichlet Processes in the two-group model framework. Here, we investigate employing mixtures of two-parameter Poisson-Dirichlet Processes instead, and show how they provide a more flexible and effective tool for large-scale hypothesis testing. Our model further employs nonlocal prior densities to allow separation between the two mixture components. We obtain a closed-form expression for the exchangeable partition probability function of the two-group model, which leads to a straightforward Markov Chain Monte Carlo implementation. We compare the performance of our method for large-scale inference in a simulation study and illustrate its use on both a prostate cancer data set and a case-control microbiome study of the gastrointestinal tracts in children from underdeveloped countries who have been recently diagnosed with moderate-to-severe diarrhea.

Denti, F., Guindani, M., Leisen, F., Lijoi, A., Wadsworth, W., Vannucci, M. (2021). Two-group Poisson-Dirichlet mixtures for multiple testing. BIOMETRICS, 77(2), 622-633 [10.1111/biom.13314].

Two-group Poisson-Dirichlet mixtures for multiple testing

Denti F.
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2021

Abstract

The simultaneous testing of multiple hypotheses is common to the analysis of high-dimensional data sets. The two-group model, first proposed by Efron, identifies significant comparisons by allocating observations to a mixture of an empirical null and an alternative distribution. In the Bayesian nonparametrics literature, many approaches have suggested using mixtures of Dirichlet Processes in the two-group model framework. Here, we investigate employing mixtures of two-parameter Poisson-Dirichlet Processes instead, and show how they provide a more flexible and effective tool for large-scale hypothesis testing. Our model further employs nonlocal prior densities to allow separation between the two mixture components. We obtain a closed-form expression for the exchangeable partition probability function of the two-group model, which leads to a straightforward Markov Chain Monte Carlo implementation. We compare the performance of our method for large-scale inference in a simulation study and illustrate its use on both a prostate cancer data set and a case-control microbiome study of the gastrointestinal tracts in children from underdeveloped countries who have been recently diagnosed with moderate-to-severe diarrhea.
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Bayesian nonparametrics; microbiome analysis; multiple testing; Poisson-Dirichlet process; two-group model
English
14-giu-2020
2021
77
2
622
633
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Denti, F., Guindani, M., Leisen, F., Lijoi, A., Wadsworth, W., Vannucci, M. (2021). Two-group Poisson-Dirichlet mixtures for multiple testing. BIOMETRICS, 77(2), 622-633 [10.1111/biom.13314].
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