Estimating the proportion of true null hypotheses, with application to DNA microarray data

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

Volumn 67, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 555-572

  Langaas, Mette ^a   Lindqvist, Bo Henry ^a   Ferkingstad, Egil ^b  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Bioinformatics; Decreasing and convex density; Dependent test statistics; Multiple testing; Nonparametric maximum likelihood estimator; p value

Indexed keywords

EID: 25144456446     PISSN: 13697412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9868.2005.00515.x     Document Type: Article

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