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A Unified Computational Framework to Compare Direct and Sequential False Discovery Rate Algorithms for Exploratory DNA Microarray Studies
Volume 3, Issue 4 (2005), pp. 331–352
Danh V. Nguyen  

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https://doi.org/10.6339/JDS.2005.03(4).239
Pub. online: 4 August 2022      Type: Research Article      Open accessOpen Access

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4 August 2022

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Abstract: The problem of detecting differential gene expression with mi croarray data has led to further innovative approaches to controlling false positives in multiple testing. False discovery rate (FDR) has been widely used as a measure of error in this multiple testing context. Direct estima tion of FDR was recently proposed by Storey (2002, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B 64, 479-498) as a substantially more powerful al ternative to the traditional sequential FDR controlling procedure, pioneered by Benjamini and Hochberg (1995, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B 57, 289-300). Direct estimation to FDR requires fixing a rejection region of interest and then conservatively estimating the associated FDR. On the other hand, sequential FDR procedure requires fixing a FDR control level and then estimating the rejection region. Thus, sequential and direct approaches to FDR control appear very different. In this paper, we intro duce a unified computational framework for sequential FDR methods and propose a class of more powerful sequential FDR algorithms, that link the direct and sequential approaches. Under the proposed unified compuational framework, both approaches simply approximate the least conservative (op timal) sequential FDR procedure. We illustrate the FDR algorithms and concepts with some numerical studies (simulations) and with two real ex ploratory DNA microarray studies, one on the detection of molecular signa tures in BRCA-mutation breast cancer patients and another on the detection of genetic signatures during colon cancer initiation and progression in the rat.

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