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Scandinavian Journal of Statistics

Scandinavian Journal of Statistics

Volume 33 Issue 2, Pages 227 - 237

Published Online: 29 Nov 2005

© 2009 Board of the Foundation of the Scandinavian Journal of Statistics



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False Discovery Control for Multiple Tests of Association Under General Dependence
NICOLAI MEINSHAUSEN 1
  1 Seminar für Statistik, ETH Zürich
Correspondence to Nicolai Meinshausen, Seminar für Statistik, Leonhardstrasse 27, ETH Zentrum, 8092 Zürich, Switzerland.
E-mail: nicolai@stat.math.ethz.ch
Copyright 2006 Board of the Foundation of the Scandinavian Journal of Statistics.
KEYWORDS
false discovery proportion • false discovery rate • multiple testing

ABSTRACT

Abstract. We propose a confidence envelope for false discovery control when testing multiple hypotheses of association simultaneously. The method is valid under arbitrary and unknown dependence between the test statistics and allows for an exploratory approach when choosing suitable rejection regions while still retaining strong control over the proportion of false discoveries.


Received June 2004, in final form October 2005

DIGITAL OBJECT IDENTIFIER (DOI)
10.1111/j.1467-9469.2005.00488.x About DOI

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