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Optimal detection of weak positive latent dependence between two sequences of multiple tests
Sihai Dave Zhao1, T Tony Cai2, Hongzhe Li3
1Department of Statistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL, United States.
Abstract:
It is frequently of interest to jointly analyze two paired sequences of multiple tests. This paper studies the problem of detecting whether there are more pairs of tests that are significant in both sequences than would be expected by chance. The asymptotic detection boundary is derived in terms of parameters such as the sparsity of non-null cases in each sequence, the effect sizes of the signals, and the magnitude of the dependence between the two sequences. A new test for detecting weak dependence is also proposed, shown to be asymptotically adaptively optimal, studied in simulations, and applied to study genetic pleiotropy in 10 pediatric autoimmune diseases.
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