α-Investing: a Procedure for Sequential Control of Expected False Discoveries

DOI10.1111/j.1467-9868.2007.00643.xzbMath1148.62065OpenAlexW1995692164MaRDI QIDQ3541272

Robert A. Stine, Dean P. Foster

Publication date: 25 November 2008

Published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B: Statistical Methodology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9868.2007.00643.x

zbMATH Keywords

familywise error ratemultiple comparisonsfalse discovery rateBonferroni method\(\alpha \)-spending

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Sequential statistical analysis (62L10) Paired and multiple comparisons; multiple testing (62J15)

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