Estimating the null and the proportion of nonnull effects in large-scale multiple comparisons

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 102, Issue 478, 2007, Pages 495-506

  Jin, Jiashun ^a   Cai, T Tony ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Characteristic functions; Empirical characteristic function; Fourier coefficients; Multiple testing; Null distribution; Proportion of nonnull effects

Indexed keywords

EID: 34250721552     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/016214507000000167     Document Type: Article

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