Estimating the proportion of false null hypotheses among a large number of independently tested hypotheses

DOI10.1214/009053605000000741zbMath1091.62059arXivmath/0501289OpenAlexW2144766920MaRDI QIDQ142489

John Rice, Nicolai Meinshausen, Nicolai Meinshausen, John A. Rice

Publication date: 1 February 2006

Published in: The Annals of Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0501289

zbMATH Keywords

hypothesis testing multiple comparisons sparsity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Parametric hypothesis testing (62F03) Hypothesis testing in multivariate analysis (62H15) Applications of statistics to physics (62P35) Paired and multiple comparisons; multiple testing (62J15) Statistical astronomy (85A35)

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