Large-Scale Multiple Testing of Correlations

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 111, Issue 513, 2016, Pages 229-240

  Cai, T Tony ^a   Liu, Weidong ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Correlation; False discovery proportion; False discovery rate; Multiple testing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84969819931     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.2014.999157     Document Type: Article

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