Neyman Seminar: Putting lots of things in order - rvalues for ranking in large-scale inference

Neyman Seminar: Putting lots of things in order - rvalues for ranking in large-scale inference

Neyman Seminar
Oct 29, 2014, 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM | 1011 Evans Hall | Happening As Scheduled
Michael Newton, University of Wisconsin (Speaker)
Hypothesis testing approaches have dominated high-dimensional inference in genomic applications. In many contexts, the precision with which individual parameters are estimated varies greatly among parameters, and testing approaches, which are most concerned with type I errors, behave poorly in ranking and selecting the most interesting (largest) individual parameters owing to an imbalance of...