Two-sample and ANOVA tests for high dimensional means
Song Xi Chen, Jun Li, Ping-Shou Zhong
The Annals of Statistics · 2019 · Volume 47 · Issue 3
Abstract
This paper considers testing the equality of two high dimensional means. Two approaches are utilized to formulate $L_{2}$-type tests for better power performance when the two high dimensional mean vectors differ only in sparsely populated coordinates and the differences are faint. One is to conduct thresholding to remove the nonsignal bearing dimensions for variance reduction of the test statistics. The other is to transform the data via the precision matrix for signal enhancement. It is shown that the thresholding and data transformation lead to attractive detection boundaries for the tests. Furthermore, we demonstrate explicitly the effects of precision matrix estimation on the detection boundary for the test with thresholding and data transformation. Extension to multi-sample ANOVA tests is also investigated. Numerical studies are performed to confirm the theoretical findings and demonstrate the practical implementations.
Keywords
62E20, 62H15, ANOVA, data transformation, Large $p$ small $n$, sparse signals, thresholding, two-sample tests for means
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