Adaptive and dynamic adaptive procedures for false discovery rate control and estimation

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series B: Statistical Methodology

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 163-182

  Liang, Kun ^a   Nettleton, Dan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Empirical processes; Martingales; Multiple testing; Optional stopping theorem; Simultaneous inference; Stopping time

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856013377     PISSN: 13697412     EISSN: 14679868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9868.2011.01001.x     Document Type: Article

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