Robbins, empirical Bayes and microarrays

• 成果类型: Editorial Material
• 署名作者: Efron, B
• 署名单位: Stanford University
• 刊物名称: ANNALS OF STATISTICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0090-5364
• DOI: 10.1214/aos/1051027871
• 发表日期: 2003
• 页码: 366-378
• 关键词: false discovery rate

摘要

Empirical Bayes was Herbert Robbins' most influential contribution to statistical theory. It is also an idea of great practical potential. That potential is realized in the analysis of microarrays, a new biogenetic technology for the simultaneous measurement of thousands of gene expression levels.