3rd Annual Probability and Statistics Day at UMBC
FUNDED BY NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Friday, April 24, 2009
 Saturday, April 25, 2009

 

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Workshop on Modern Multiple Testing
Friday, April 24, 2009
2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lecture Hall 8, ITE

Registration is required! (See Below)
For a copy of the workshop flyer, click here.

Instructor: Professor Sanat Sarkar, Temple University


Lecture 1
  1. The statistical problem
  2. Different measures of false discoveries and false non-discoveries
  3. Single-step vs. stepwise multiple testing procedures
  4. Useful formulas and inequalities

Lecture 2
  1. Procedures Controlling the Familywise Error Rate (FWER): Bonferoni, Sidak, Holm, Hochberg, etc.
  2. Approaches controll the False Discovery Rate (FDR): Benjamin-Hochberg vs. Storey
  3. Procedures controlling the FDR: The BH method, and adaptive BH methods
  4. Applications

Lecture 3
  1. Procedures controlling generalized FWER
  2. Procedures controlling generalized FDR
  3. Applications

Registration is now closed. For more information, please contact Dr. Sinha

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