Higher criticism for detecting sparse heterogeneous mixtures
Higher criticism for detecting sparse heterogeneous mixtures
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DOI:
10.1214/009053604000000265
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发表时间:
2004-06-01
影响因子:
4.5
通讯作者:
Jin, JS
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作者:
Donoho, D;Jin, JS
Higher criticism, or second-level significance testing, is a multiple-comparisons concept mentioned in passing by Tukey. It concerns a situation where there are many independent tests of significance and one is interested in rejecting the joint null hypothesis. Tukey suggested comparing the fraction of observed significances at a given alpha-level to the expected fraction under the joint null. In fact, he suggested standardizing the difference of the two quantities and forming a z-score; the resulting z-score tests the significance of the body of significance tests.We consider a generalization, where we maximize this z-score over a range of significance levels 0 < alpha