On the false discovery rate and an asymptotically optimal rejection curve

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 596-618

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

^a LEIBNIZ CENTER FOR DIABETES RESEARCH AT HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY DÜSSELDORF   (Germany)

^b Omnicare Clinical Research   (Germany)

Author keywords

Crossing point; Extended glivenko cantelli theorem; False discovery proportion; False discovery rate; Familywise error rate; Least favorable configurations; Multiple comparisons; Multiple test procedure; Order statistics; Positive regression dependent; Step up test; Step up down test

Indexed keywords

EID: 65349123087     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/07-AOS569     Document Type: Article

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