Asymptotic properties of Bayes risk for the horseshoe prior. (English) Zbl 1329.62122

Datta, Jyotishka; Ghosh, Jayanta K.

Bayesian Anal. 8, No. 1, 111-132 (2013).

Summary: In this paper, we establish some optimality properties of the multiple testing rule induced by the horseshoe estimator due to C. M. Carvalho et al. [Biometrika 97, No. 2, 465–480 (2010; Zbl 1406.62021); “Handling sparsity via the horseshoe”, J. Mach. Learn. Res. W&CP 5, 73–80 (2009)] from a Bayesian decision theoretic viewpoint. We consider the two-groups model for the data and an additive loss structure such that the total loss is equal to the number of misclassified hypotheses. We use the same asymptotic framework as Bogdan, Chakrabarti, Frommlet, and Ghosh [M. Bogdan et al., Ann. Stat. 39, No. 3, 1551–1579 (2011; Zbl 1221.62012)] who introduced the Bayes oracle in the context of multiple testing and provided conditions under which the Benjamini-Hochberg and Bonferroni procedures attain the risk of the Bayes oracle. We prove a similar result for the horseshoe decision rule up to \(O(1)\) with the constant in the horseshoe risk close to the constant in the oracle. We use the Full Bayes estimate of the tuning parameter \(\tau\). It is worth noting that the Full Bayes estimate cannot be replaced by the Empirical Bayes estimate, which tends to be too small.

MSC:

62F15	Bayesian inference
62C25	Compound decision problems in statistical decision theory
62F03	Parametric hypothesis testing
62F05	Asymptotic properties of parametric tests
62J15	Paired and multiple comparisons; multiple testing

Keywords:

multiple testing; horseshoe decision rule; asymptotic optimality; Bayes oracle

Citations:

Zbl 1221.62012; Zbl 1406.62021