A Bootstrap Hypothesis Test for High-Dimensional Mean Vectors
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This paper is concerned with testing global null hypotheses about population mean vectors of high-dimensional data. Current tests require either strong mixing (independence) conditions on the individual components of the high-dimensional data or high-order moment conditions. In this paper, we propose a novel class of bootstrap hypothesis tests based on ℓ_p-statistics with p ∈ [1, ∞] which requires neither of these assumptions. We study asymptotic size, unbiasedness, consistency, and Bahadur slope of these tests. Capitalizing on these theoretical insights, we develop a modified bootstrap test with improved power properties and a self-normalized bootstrap test for elliptically distributed data. We then propose two novel bias correction procedures to improve the accuracy of the bootstrap test in finite samples, which leverage measure concentration and hypercontractivity properties of ℓ_p-norms in high dimensions. Numerical experiments support our theoretical results in finite samples.
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