Strong control, conservative point estimation and simultaneous conservative consistency of false discovery rates: A unified approach

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series B: Statistical Methodology

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 187-205

  Storey, John D ^a   Taylor, Jonathan E ^b   Siegmund, David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Multiple comparisons; P values; Positive false discovery rate; Q values; Simultaneous inference

Indexed keywords

EID: 1142273091     PISSN: 13697412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9868.2004.00439.x     Document Type: Article

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