Controlling the False Discovery Rate: A Practical and Powerful Approach to Multiple Testing

Benjamini, Yoav; Hochberg, Yosef

doi:10.1111/j.2517-6161.1995.tb02031.x

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Controlling the False Discovery Rate: A Practical and Powerful Approach to Multiple Testing

Published in Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B (Statistical Methodology) • Jan 1, 1995

Authors:

Yoav Benjamini

Yosef Hochberg

Abstract

SUMMARY The common approach to the multiplicity problem calls for controlling the familywise error rate (FWER). This approach, though, has faults, and we point out a few. A different approach to problems of multiple significance testing is presented. It calls for controlling the expected proportion ...

Subject

False discovery rate

Multiple comparisons problem

Word error rate

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