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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2024 Jan 12.
Published in final edited form as: Stat Sci. 2023 Nov 1;38(4):557–575. doi: 10.1214/23-STS901

Table 4. Summary of leading methods for online error rate control, giving dependence assumptions and pros & cons.

Error rate Algorithm Dependence assumptions Pros & Cons
FDR or mFDR LORD++ [An online analogue of the BH procedure] Independence of null p-values for FDR control, conditional super-uniformity of null p-values for mFDR control

+ Extensions for prior weights, penalty weights, decaying memory, as well as local dependence (asynchronous and batch testing)

+ Empirically robust to positive dependence of p-values

− Not robust to arbitrary dependence of p-values

− Typically lower power than SAFFRON or ADDIS

SAFFRON [Adaptive algorithm based on an estimate of the proportion of true null hypotheses] As above

+ Higher power than LORD++ if there is a significant fraction of non-nulls and the signals are strong

+ Extensions for local dependence (asynchronous and batch testing)

− Not robust to dependence of p-values

ADDIS [Combines adaptivity with discarding of conservative nulls] As above

+ Higher power than SAFFRON when there are conservative nulls

+ Extensions for local dependence (asynchronous testing)

− Not robust to dependence of p-values

LOND Controls FDR under positive dependence of p-values

+ Provable FDR control for positive dependence (the ‘PRDS’ assumption)

− Substantially lower power than the algorithms above

FDX supLORD Null p-values are conditionally super-uniform

+ Also controls the mFDR and FDR at both fixed times and stopping times

+ User may choose the number of rejections after which we begin controlling FDX in exchange for more power

− Unclear how robust to departures from conditional superuniformity

FWER Alpha-spending

+ Robust to arbitrary dependence of p-values

− Very low power, rejects only a few hypotheses before becoming unable to reject any more hypotheses

ADDIS-spending [Combines adaptivity with discarding of conservative nulls] Null p-values are uniformly conservative and independent

+ Higher power than Alpha-spending

+ Extensions for local dependence

− Unclear how robust to departures from independence