Optimal multiple testing under a Gaussian prior on the effect sizes

Biometrika

Volumn 102, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 753-766

  Dobriban, Edgar ^a   Fortney, Kristen ^a   Kim, Stuart K ^a   Owen, Art B ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Genome wide association study; Multiple testing; Nonconvex optimization; p value weighting; Weighted Bonferroni method

Indexed keywords

EID: 84950316857     PISSN: 00063444     EISSN: 14643510     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biomet/asv050     Document Type: Article

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