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Significance levels for studies with correlated test statistics.
Biostatistics (Oxford, England) - 1 Jul 2008
Shi Jianxin, Levinson Douglas F, Whittemore Alice S
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When testing large numbers of null hypotheses, one needs to assess the evidence against the global null hypothesis that none of the hypotheses is false. Such evidence typically is based on the test statistic of the largest magnitude, whose statistical significance is evaluated by permuting the sample units to simulate its null distribution. Efron (2007) has noted that correlation among the test statistics can...
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