Simultaneous testing of grouped hypotheses: Finding needles in multiple haystacks

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 104, Issue 488, 2009, Pages 1467-1481

  Cai, T Tony ^a   Sun , Wenguang ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Compound decision problem; Conditional local false discovery rate; Exchangeability; False discovery rate; Grouped hypotheses; Large scale multiple testing

Indexed keywords

EID: 74049143460     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/jasa.2009.tm08415     Document Type: Article

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