A simple forward selection procedure based on false discovery rate control

Annals of Applied Statistics

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 179-198

  Benjamini, Yoav ^a   Gavrilov, Yulia ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Linear regression; Multiple testing; Random oracle

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650339300     PISSN: 19326157     EISSN: 19417330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/08-AOAS194     Document Type: Article

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