Comparisons of estimators of the number of true null hypotheses and adaptive FDR procedures in multiplicity testing

Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation

Volumn 81, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 207-220

  Hwang, Yi Ting ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIPEI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

False discovery rate; Multiple hypothesis testing; Number of true null hypotheses; Sensitivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650290870     PISSN: 00949655     EISSN: 15635163     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00949650903260855     Document Type: Article

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