Higher criticism: \(p\)-values and criticism

DOI10.1214/15-AOS1312zbMath1320.62039arXiv1411.1437OpenAlexW3102033309MaRDI QIDQ2352743

Jian Li, David O. Siegmund

Publication date: 6 July 2015

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1411.1437

zbMATH Keywords

sparse mixtureglobal \(p\)-value

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Asymptotic properties of nonparametric inference (62G20) Point estimation (62F10)

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