Large-scale multiple testing under dependence

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series B: Statistical Methodology

Volumn 71, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 393-424

  Sun, Wenguang ^b   Tony Cai, T ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Compound decision problem; False discovery rate; Hidden Markov models; Local significance index; Multiple testing under dependence

Indexed keywords

EID: 62849107228     PISSN: 13697412     EISSN: 14679868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9868.2008.00694.x     Document Type: Article

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