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arXiv 2003.04636stat.ME
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高维均值向量的成对Hotelling检验方法

A Pairwise Hotelling Method for Testing High-Dimensional Mean Vectors

Zongliang Hu, Tiejun Tong, Marc G. Genton

摘要:

对于高维小样本量,由于样本协方差阵的奇异性问题,Hotelling的T2检验不适用于检验均值向量。为了克服这个问题,文献中有三种主要方法。然而,请注意,现有的每种方法都可能具有严重的局限性,并且仅在某些情况下有效。受此启发,我们提出了一个成对的Hotelling方法来测试高维均值向量,从本质上讲,它提供了一个很好的平衡现有的方法。为了有效地利用相关性信息,我们构造了新的检验统计量作为具有强相关性的协变量对的Hotelling检验统计量和与其他协变量几乎没有相关性的个体协变量的平方$t$统计量的总和。在一定的正则条件下,我们进一步得到了所提出的Hotelling检验的渐近零分布和幂函数.数值结果表明,我们的新检验能够控制第一类错误率,并且与现有方法相比可以实现更高的统计功效,特别是当协变量高度相关时。两个真实数据的例子也进行了分析,他们都证明了我们的成对Hotelling测试的有效性。

英文摘要:

For high-dimensional small sample size data, Hotelling's T2 test is not applicable for testing mean vectors due to the singularity problem in the sample covariance matrix. To overcome the problem, there are three main approaches in the literature. Note, however, that each of the existing approaches may have serious limitations and only works well in certain situations. Inspired by this, we propose a pairwise Hotelling method for testing high-dimensional mean vectors, which, in essence, provides a good balance between the existing approaches. To effectively utilize the correlation information, we construct the new test statistics as the summation of Hotelling's test statistics for the covariate pairs with strong correlations and the squared $t$ statistics for the individual covariates that have little correlation with others. We further derive the asymptotic null distributions and power functions for the proposed Hotelling tests under some regularity conditions. Numerical results show that our new tests are able to control the type I error rates, and can achieve a higher statistical power compared to existing methods, especially when the covariates are highly correlated. Two real data examples are also analyzed and they both demonstrate the efficacy of our pairwise Hotelling tests.

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