Dependency and false discovery rate: Asymptotics

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1432-1455

  Finner, Helmut ^a   Dickhaus, Thorsten ^a   Roters, Markus ^b  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b Omnicare Clinical Research   (Germany)

Author keywords

Exchangeable test statistics; Expected error rate; False discovery rate; Glivenko Cantelli theorem; Largest crossing point; Least favorable configurations; Multiple comparisons; Multiple test procedure; Multivariate total positivity of order 2

Indexed keywords

EID: 37749054642     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/009053607000000046     Document Type: Article

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