Accurate and efficient estimation of small P-values with the cross-entropy method: applications in genomic data analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Motivation

Small P-values are often required to be accurately estimated in large-scale genomic studies for the adjustment of multiple hypothesis tests and the ranking of genomic features based on their statistical significance. For those complicated test statistics whose cumulative distribution functions are analytically intractable, existing methods usually do not work well with small P-values due to lack of accuracy or computational restrictions. We propose a general approach for accurately and efficiently estimating small P-values for a broad range of complicated test statistics based on the principle of the cross-entropy method and Markov chain Monte Carlo sampling techniques.

Results

We evaluate the performance of the proposed algorithm through simulations and demonstra

SUBMITTER: Shi Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6612894 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature