Optimal rates of convergence for estimating the null density and proportion of nonnull effects in large-scale multiple testing

DOI10.1214/09-AOS696zbMath1181.62040arXiv1001.1609MaRDI QIDQ847630

Jiashun Jin, T. Tony Cai

Publication date: 19 February 2010

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1001.1609

zbMATH Keywords

rate of convergence; Fourier analysis; characteristic function; empirical characteristic function; minimax lower bound; multiple testing; null distribution; proportion of nonnull effects; two-point argument

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

62G07: Density estimation

62G10: Nonparametric hypothesis testing

62G20: Asymptotic properties of nonparametric inference

62G05: Nonparametric estimation

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