An empirical Bayes mixture method for effect size and false discovery rate estimation

Annals of Applied Statistics

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 422-438

  Muralidharan, Omkar ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Effect size estimation; Empirical Bayes; Empirical null; False discovery rate; Mixture prior

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870283691     PISSN: 19326157     EISSN: 19417330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/09-AOAS276     Document Type: Article

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