A practical guide to methods controlling false discoveries in computational biology

Abstract Background In high-throughput studies, hundreds to millions of hypotheses are typically tested. Statistical methods that control the false discovery rate (FDR) have emerged as popular and powerful tools for error rate control. While classic FDR methods use only p values as input, more moder...

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Main Authors: Keegan Korthauer, Patrick K. Kimes, Claire Duvallet, Alejandro Reyes, Ayshwarya Subramanian, Mingxiang Teng, Chinmay Shukla, Eric J. Alm, Stephanie C. Hicks
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2019-06-01
Series:Genome Biology
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13059-019-1716-1