Data Driven Hypothesis Weighting and False Discovery Rate

Data Driven Hypothesis Weighting and False Discovery Rate

Statistics and Genomics Seminar
Mar 10, 2016, 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM | 1011 Evans Hall | Happening As Scheduled
Wolfgang Huber, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (Speaker)
Hypothesis weighting is a powerful approach for improving the power of data analyses that employ multiple testing. However, in general it is not evident how to choose the weights. I will describe IHW, a method for data-driven hypothesis weighting that makes use of informative covariates that are independent of the test statistic under the null, but informative of each test’s power or prior...