A retrospective read paper meeting:
The research section of the RSS are pleased to announce a retrospective
reading of the 1995 JRSSB paper "Controlling the false discovery rate: A
practical and powerful approach to multiple testing" by Benjamini and
Hochberg.
This meeting will consist of a presentation by Yoav Benjamini, followed
by invited discussants, and will take place during the annual RSS
conference in Edinburgh on September 9th.
Date: September 9th, 2009
Title: Discovering the False Discovery Rate
Speaker: Yoav Benjamini, Tel Aviv University
Abstract: I shall describe the background for the paper "Controlling the
false discovery rate: a new and powerful approach to multiple
comparisons" by Benjamini and Hochberg (JRSS B, 1995). I shall then
describe, and explain the reason for, the slow and painful process of
acceptance of the idea, that started in 1989 and ended only in 2000 when
the original paper was finally published. I shall briefly review the
reason for the success of the False Discovery Rate approach, and some of
the later developments of importance in the area. I shall point at
future directions of research and development, some in progress and some
in need.
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