Estimating false discovery proportion under arbitrary covariance dependence

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 107, Issue 499, 2012, Pages 1019-1035

  Fan, Jianqing ^a,b   Han, Xu ^c   Gu, Weijie ^a  

^a Princeton University   (United States)

^b SHANGHAI UNIVERSITY OF FINANCE AND ECONOMICS   (China)

^c TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Arbitrary dependence structure; False discovery rate; Genome wide association studies; High dimensional inference; Multiple hypothesis testing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870709284     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.2012.720478     Document Type: Article

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