Astronomical transient detection controlling the false discovery rate

Lecture Notes in Statistics

Volumn 209, Issue , 2012, Pages 383-396

  Clements, Nicolle ^a   Sarkar, Sanat K ^a   Guo, Wenge ^b  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATION; ASTRONOMICAL SOURCES; FALSE DETECTIONS; FALSE DISCOVERY RATE; SIMULATION STUDIES; SOURCE DETECTION; SPATIAL DEPENDENCIES; TRANSIENT DETECTION;

EID: 84896607774     PISSN: 09300325     EISSN: 21977186     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-3520-4_36     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (26)

1. Becker, A.C (2006). Transient Detection and Classification. Astronomical Notes 88, 789-792.
2. Benjamini, Y & Hochberg, Y. (1995). Controlling the false discovery rate: A practical and powerful approach to multiple testing. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, B 57, 289-300.
3. Benjamini, Y. & Hochberg, Y. (2000). On the adaptive control of the false discovery rate in multiple testing with independent statistics. Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics. 25, 60-83.
4. Benjamini, Y, Krieger, K. & Yekutieli, D. (2006). Adaptive linear step-up procedures that control the false discovery rate. Biometrika 93, 491-507.
5. Benjamini, Y., and Yekutieli, D., (2001). The control of the false discovery rate in multiple testing uder dependency. Annals of Statistics, 29, 1165-1188.
6. Blanchard, G. & Roquain, E. (2009). Adaptive FDR control under independence and dependence. Journal of Machine Learning Research 10, 2837-2871.
7. Efron, B. (2007). Correlation and large-scale simultaneous significance testing. Journal of the American Statistical Association 102, 93-103.
8. Finner, H. & Gontscharuk, V. (2009). Controlling the familywise error rate with plug-in estimator for the proportion of true null hypotheses. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, B 71, 1031-1048.
9. Friedenberg, D. & Genovese, C. (2009) Straight to the Source: Detecting Aggregate Objects in Astronomical Images with Proper Error Control. arXiv: 0910.5449.
10. Gavrilov, Y., Benjamini, Y. & Sarkar, S. K. (2009). An adaptive step-down procedure with proven FDR control. Annals of Statistics 37, 619-629.
11. Guo, W. (2009). A note on adaptive Bonferroni and Holm procedures under dependence. Biometrika, 96, 1012-1018.
12. Henrion, M., Mortlock, D., Hand, D., Gandy, A. (2011). A Bayesian approach to star-galaxy classification. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 412, 2286-2302.
13. Hopkins, A. M., Miller, C. J., Connolly, A. J., Genovese, C., Nichol, R. C. & Wasserman, L. (2002). A new source detection algorithm using the false discovery rate. The Astronomical Journal 123, 1086-1094.
14. Romano, J. P., Shaikh, A. M. & Wolf, M. (2008). Control of the false discovery rate under dependence using the bootstrap and subsampling. TEST 17, 417-442.
15. Salzberg, S., Chandler, R., Ford, H., Murthy, S., and White, R. (2007). Decision Trees for Automated Identification of Cosmic-Ray Hits in Hubble Space Telescope Images. The Astronomical Society of the Pacific 107, 279-288.
16. Sarkar, S. K. (2002). Some results on false discovery rate in stepwise multiple testing procedures. Annals of Statistics 30, 239-257.
17. Sarkar, S. K. (2007). Stepup procedures controlling generalized FWER and generalized FDR. Annals of Statistics 35, 2405-2420.
18. Sarkar, S. K. & Guo, W. (2009). On a generalized false discovery rate. Annals of Statistics 37, 337-363.
19. Sarkar, S. & Guo, W. (2010). Procedures controlling generalized false discovery rate using bivariate distributions of the null p-values. Statistica Sinica 20, 1227-1238.
20. Sarkar, S. K. (2008). On methods controlling the false discovery rate (with discussions). Sankhya 70, 135-168.
21. Sarkar, S. K., Guo, W. & Finner, H. (2011). On adaptive procedures controlling the familywise error rate. To appear in the Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference.
22. Savage, R. & Oliver, S. (2007). Bayesian Methods of Astronomical Source Extraction. The Astrophysical Journal 661, 1339-1346.
23. Storey, J.D. (2002). A direct approach to false discovery rates. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, B 64, 479-498.
24. Storey, J. D., Taylor, J. E. &Siegmund, D. (2004). Strong control, conservative point estimation and simultaneous conservative consistency of false discovery rates: A unified approach. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, B 66, 187-205.
25. Sun, W. & Cai, T. (2009). Large-scale multiple testing under dependence. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, B 71, 393-424.
26. Yekutieli, D. & Benjamini, Y. (1999) Resampling-based false discovery rate controlling multiple test procedures for correlated test statistics. Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference 82, 171-196.