An adaptive truncated product method for combining dependent p-values.
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SUBMITTER: Sheng X
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3736994 | biostudies-literature | 2013 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
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An adaptive truncated product method for combining dependent <i>p</i>-values.
Sheng Xuguang X Yang Jingyun J
Economics letters 20130501 2
We propose an adaptive truncated product method that facilitates the selection of the truncation point among a set of candidates. To efficiently estimate the distribution of the proposed method when the <i>p</i>-values are correlated, we develop a single-layer bootstrap procedure. ...[more]
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