Feature selection in omics prediction problems using cat scores and false nondiscovery rate control

Annals of Applied Statistics

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 503-519

  Ahdesmäki, Miika ^a,b   Strimmer, Korbinian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

"Small n; Correlation; Correlation adjusted t score; False discovery rates; Feature selection; Higher criticism; James Stein estimator; Large p" setting; Linear discriminant analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870267057     PISSN: 19326157     EISSN: 19417330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/09-AOAS277     Document Type: Article

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