false discovery rate

collocation in English

meaningsoffalse,discoveryandrate

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false
adjective
uk
/fɒls/
us
/fɑːls/
not real, but made to look or ...
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discovery
noun
uk
/dɪˈskʌv.ər.i/
us
/dɪˈskʌv.ɚ.i/
the process of finding information, a place, or an object, especially for the first time, or the thing that ...
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rate
noun[C]
uk
/reɪt/
us
/reɪt/
the speed at which something happens or changes, or the amount or number of times it happens or changes in a ...
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Controlling thefalsediscoveryrate: a practical and powerful approach to multiple testing.
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Controlling thefalsediscoveryrate : a practical and powerful approach to multiple testing.
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Thresholding of statistical maps in functional neuroimaging using thefalsediscoveryrate.
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Thefalsediscoveryrates of multipleinterval mapping were in the expected range.
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Controlling thefalsediscoveryrate: a practical and powerful approach to multiple testing.
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In this list, according to the chosenfalsediscoveryrate, 1.6 genes would be expected to be false positives.
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A step-down multiple hypotheses testing procedure that controls thefalsediscoveryrate under independence.
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Controlling thefalsediscoveryrate : a practical and powerful approach to multiple testing.
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Thresholding of statistical maps in functional neuroimaging using thefalsediscoveryrate.
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The control of thefalsediscoveryrate in multiple testing under dependency.
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Implementing thefalsediscoveryrate control : increasing your power.
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Data can be queried for specific proteins and genes, browsed based on organism, tissue, localization and condition, and sorted byfalsediscoveryrate and expression.
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The use of afalsediscoveryrate is a more sophisticated approach that has become a popular method for control of multiple hypothesis tests.
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The control is in the sense that the specific procedures controls it, it might be controlling the familywise error rate, thefalsediscoveryrate, or some other error rate.
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