Asymptotic minimaxity of false discovery rate thresholding for sparse exponential data

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 2980-3018

  Donoho, David ^a   Jin, Jiashun ^b,c  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

False discovery rate (FDR); Minimax bayes estimation; Minimax decision theory; Mixtures of exponential model; Multiple comparisons; Sparsity; Threshold rules

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547291918     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/009053606000000920     Document Type: Article

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