Large-scale simultaneous hypothesis testing: The choice of a null hypothesis

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 99, Issue 465, 2004, Pages 96-104

  Efron, Bradley ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Empirical bayes; Empirical null hypothesis; Local false discovery rate; Microarray analysis; Unobserved covariates

Indexed keywords

EID: 2142732441     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/016214504000000089     Document Type: Article

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