Efficient estimation of the number of false positives in high-throughput screening
高通量筛查中假阳性数量的有效估计
This paper develops tail estimation methods to handle false positives in multiple testing problems where testing is done at extreme significance levels and with low degrees of freedom, and where the true null distribution may differ from the theoretical one. We show that the number of false positives, conditional on the total number of positives, has an approximately binomial distribution, and we find estimators of the distribution parameter. We also develop methods for…