Randomized p-values for multiple testing of composite null hypotheses

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 143, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1968-1979

  Dickhaus, Thorsten ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Data adaptive multiple test; False discovery rate; Family wise error rate; Quantile transformation; Schweder Spj tvoll estimator; Simultaneous statistical inference

Indexed keywords

EID: 84883306704     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jspi.2013.06.011     Document Type: Article

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