Stopped e-BH controls FDR at all stopping times when the underlying e-processes are global, and local e-processes become global under a no-unobserved-confounding Markov condition.
Carefree multiple testing with e-processes
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E-processes enable hypothesis testing with ongoing data collection while maintaining Type I error control. However, when testing multiple hypotheses simultaneously, current $e$-value based multiple testing methods such as e-BH are not invariant to the order in which data are gathered for the different $e$-processes. This can lead to undesirable situations, e.g., where a hypothesis rejected at time $t$ is no longer rejected at time $t+1$ after choosing to gather more data for one or more $e$-processes unrelated to that hypothesis. We argue that multiple testing methods should always work with suprema of $e$-processes. We provide an example to illustrate that e-BH does not control the FDR, at level $\alpha$ when applied to suprema of $e$-processes. From the same example we see that the FWER is not controlled with averaging, and also closed e-BH does not control the FDR. We show that adjusters can be used to ensure FDR-sup control with e-BH under arbitrary dependence.
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Anytime-valid FDR control with the stopped e-BH procedure
Stopped e-BH controls FDR at all stopping times when the underlying e-processes are global, and local e-processes become global under a no-unobserved-confounding Markov condition.