Some optimality properties of FDR controlling rules under sparsity

Electronic Journal of Statistics

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1328-1368

  Frommlet, Florian ^a   Bogdan, Małgorzata ^b,c  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b WROCLAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Asymptotic optimality; Bayes risk; False discovery rate; Multiple testing; Two groups model

Indexed keywords

EID: 84884955624     PISSN: 19357524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/13-EJS808     Document Type: Article

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