CombinePValues {FuzzySimRes}

Combine several p-values to obtain a single value.

Description

'CombinePValues' calculates the single combined p-value using several input p-values.

Usage

CombinePValues(pValues, method = "simes", ...)

Arguments

pValues

A vector of the p-values.

method

Method used to combine the p-values. The possible methods are the same as in the palasso package plus the mean approach.

...

Possible parameters passed to other functions.

Details

The procedure combines many p-values into a single output using the selected statistical method. This function is used as a tool in one of the epistemic bootstrap approaches to provide the necessary final p-value in the statistical test. To combine the p-values different statistical methods can be applied. Apart from the mean method (i.e., simple average of all p-values), other methods are derived from the palasso package (the function .combine is used there).

Value

The output is given as a single real-valued number.

References

Westfall, P. H. (2005). Combining p-values. Encyclopedia of Biostatistics, doi: 10.1002/0470011815.b2a15181 <https://doi.org/10.1002/0470011815.b2a15181>

Examples

# combine the p-values using the Simes method

p <- runif(20)

CombinePValues(p)