A Powerful Bayesian Test for Equality of Means in High Dimensions
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- Journal Article
- Citation:
- Journal of the American Statistical Association, 2018, 113 (524), pp. 1733 - 1741
- Issue Date:
- 2018-10-02
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© 2018, © 2018 American Statistical Association. We develop a Bayes factor-based testing procedure for comparing two population means in high-dimensional settings. In ‘large-p-small-n” settings, Bayes factors based on proper priors require eliciting a large and complex p × p covariance matrix, whereas Bayes factors based on Jeffrey’s prior suffer the same impediment as the classical Hotelling T2 test statistic as they involve inversion of ill-formed sample covariance matrices. To circumvent this limitation, we propose that the Bayes factor be based on lower dimensional random projections of the high-dimensional data vectors. We choose the prior under the alternative to maximize the power of the test for a fixed threshold level, yielding a restricted most powerful Bayesian test (RMPBT). The final test statistic is based on the ensemble of Bayes factors corresponding to multiple replications of randomly projected data. We show that the test is unbiased and, under mild conditions, is also locally consistent. We demonstrate the efficacy of the approach through simulated and real data examples. Supplementary materials for this article are available online.
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