Relative errors in central limit theorems for student's t statistic, with applications

Statistica Sinica

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 343-354

  Wang, Qiying ^a   Hall, Peter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Classification; Family wise error rate; Genomics; Large deviation expansion; Signal detection; Simultaneous hypothesis testing; Sparsity

Indexed keywords

EID: 64549101616     PISSN: 10170405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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