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Local false discovery rate software
5 November 2008
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Zahra Montazeri and David Bickel developed empiricalBayes, an R software bundle that provides a simple solution to the extreme multiple testing problem. It contains two packages:
- localFDR estimates local false discovery rates given a vector of p-values.
- HighProbability determines which p-values are low enough that their alternative hypotheses can be considered highly probable.
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Mode estimation
25 January 2008
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Paul Poncet’s modeest package implements the half-range mode, the half-sample mode, and the mode-based skewness of D. R. Bickel, “Robust estimators of the mode and skewness of continuous data,” Computational Statistics and Data Analysis 39, 153-163 (2002).
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David Bickel, statistician 
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