An adaptive step-down procedure with proven FDR control under independence

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 619-629

  Gavrilov, Yulia ^a   Benjamini, Yoav ^a   Sarkar, Sanat K ^b,c  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

False discovery rate; Multiple testing

Indexed keywords

EID: 65349175763     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/07-AOS586     Document Type: Article

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