Bias and variance reduction in estimating the proportion of true-null hypotheses.

When testing a large number of hypotheses, estimating the proportion of true nulls, denoted by π(0), becomes increasingly important. This quantity has many applications in practice. For instance, a reliable estimate of π(0) can eliminate the conservative bias of the Benjamini-Hochberg procedure on c...

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Publicado en:Biostatistics Vol. 16; no. 1; pp. 189 - 205
Autores principales: Cheng, Yebin, Gao, Dexiang, Tong, Tiejun
Formato: research Journal Article
Publicado: Oxford University Press / USA Jan2015
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