##Statistics Seminar##\\ Department of Mathematics and Statistics ^ **DATE:**|Thursday, March 9, 2022 | ^ **TIME:**|1:15pm -- 2:15pm | ^ **LOCATION:**|WH 100E | ^ **SPEAKER:**|Baozhen Wang, Binghamton University | ^ **TITLE:**|Combining p-values via averaging | \\ **Abstract** This paper is published in Biometrika by V. Vovk and R. Wang. They propose general methods for the problem of multiple testing of a single hypothesis, with a standard goal of combining a number of p-values without making any assumptions about their dependence structure. A result by Rüschendorf (1982) and, independently, Meng (1993) implies that the p-values can be combined by scaling up their arithmetic mean by a factor of 2, and no smaller factor is sufficient in general. A similar result by Mattner about the geometric mean replaces 2 by e. Based on more recent developments in mathematical finance, specifically, robust risk aggregation techniques, they extend these results to generalized means; in particular, they show that K p-values can be combined by scaling up their harmonic mean by a factor of log K asymptotically as K tends to infinity. This leads to a generalized version of the Bonferroni–Holm procedure. They also explore methods using weighted averages of p-values.