Positive false discovery proportions: Intrinsic bounds and adaptive control

Statistica Sinica

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 837-860

  Chi, Zhiyi ^a   Tan, Zhiqiang ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

False discovery excessive probability; False discovery rate; Multiple testing; P value; Positive false discovery proportion; Sparsity

Indexed keywords

EID: 55349132745     PISSN: 10170405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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