A clarifying comparison of methods for controlling the false discovery rate

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 139, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 2126-2137

  Yin, Yaling ^a   Soteros, Christine E ^a   Bickis, Miķelis G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

False discovery rate; Multiple testing

Indexed keywords

EID: 62049084549     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jspi.2008.10.010     Document Type: Article

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