Title |
Empirical Bayes estimation of posterior probabilities of enrichment: A comparative study of five estimators of the local false discovery rate
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Published in |
BMC Bioinformatics, March 2013
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DOI | 10.1186/1471-2105-14-87 |
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Authors |
Zhenyu Yang, Zuojing Li, David R Bickel |
Abstract |
In investigating differentially expressed genes or other selected features, researchers conduct hypothesis tests to determine which biological categories, such as those of the Gene Ontology (GO), are enriched for the selected features. Multiple comparison procedures (MCPs) are commonly used to prevent excessive false positive rates. Traditional MCPs, e.g., the Bonferroni method, go to the opposite extreme: strictly controlling a family-wise error rate, resulting in excessive false negative rates. Researchers generally prefer the more balanced approach of instead controlling the false discovery rate (FDR). However, the q-values that methods of FDR control assign to biological categories tend to be too low to reliably estimate the probability that a biological category is not enriched for the preselected features. Thus, we study an application of the other estimators of that probability, which is called the local FDR (LFDR). |
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