Simultaneous Statistical Inference With Applications in the Life Sciences /

• Main Author: Dickhaus, Thorsten (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Data mining.; Biostatistics.; Biomathematics.; Statistics.; Biomedical engineering.; Life Sciences.; Statistical Theory and Methods.; Mathematical and Computational Biology.; Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery.; Biomedical Engineering.

This monograph will provide an in-depth mathematical treatment of modern multiple test procedures controlling the false discovery rate (FDR) and related error measures, particularly addressing applications to fields such as genetics, proteomics, neuroscience and general biology. The book will also i...

Table of Contents:

• The problem of simultaneous inference
• Part I General Theory
• Some theory of p-values
• Classes of multiple test procedures
• Simultaneous test procedures
• Stepwise rejective multiple tests
• Multiple testing and binary classification
• Multiple testing and model selection
• Software solutions for multiple hypotheses testing
• Part II From Genotype to Phenotype
• Genetic association studies
• Gene expression analyses
• Functional magnetic resonance imaging
• Part III Further Applications in the Life Sciences
• Further life science applications.