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How to choose features or p values for empirical Bayes estimation of the local false discovery rate
F. Abbas-Aghababazadeh, M. Alvo, and D. R. Bickel, “Estimating the local false discovery rate via a bootstrap solution to the reference class problem,” PLoS ONE 13, e0206902 (2018) | full text | 2016 preprint
R functions for combining probabilities using game theory
Suite of R functions for combination of probabilities using a game-theoretic method
R package for estimating local false discovery rates using empirical Bayes methods
LFDREmpiricalBayes — Estimating Local False Discovery Rates Using Empirical Bayes Methods
Coherent fiducial distributions
D. R. Bickel and M. Padilla, “A prior-free framework of coherent inference and its derivation of simple shrinkage estimators,” Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference 145, 204–221 (2014). 2012 version
Estimates of the local FDR
Z. Yang, Z. Li, and D. R. Bickel, “Empirical Bayes estimation of posterior probabilities of enrichment: A comparative study of five estimators of the local false discovery rate,” BMC Bioinformatics 14, art. 87 (2013). published version | 2011 version | 2010 version
This paper adapts novel empirical Bayes methods for the problem of detecting enrichment in the form of differential representation of genes associated with a biological category with respect to a list of genes identified as differentially expressed. Read more…
MLE of the local FDR
Y. Yang, F. A. Aghababazadeh, and D. R. Bickel, “Parametric estimation of the local false discovery rate for identifying genetic associations,” IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics 10, 98-108 (2013). 2010 version | Slides
Local FDR estimation for low-dimensional data
M. Padilla and D. R. Bickel, “Estimators of the local false discovery rate designed for small numbers of tests,” Statistical Applications in Genetics and Molecular Biology 11 (5), art. 4 (2012). Full article | 2010 & 2012 preprints
Software for local false discovery rate estimation
LFDR-MLE is a suite of R functions for the estimation of local false discovery rates by maximum likelihood under a two-group parametric mixture model of test statistics.
Shrinkage estimation of expression fold change
Z. Montazeri*, C. M. Yanofsky*, and D. R. Bickel, “Shrinkage estimation of effect sizes as an alternative to hypothesis testing followed by estimation in high-dimensional biology: Applications to differential gene expression,” Statistical Applications in Genetics and Molecular Biology 9 (1) 23 (2010). Article | Software
* the first two authors contributed equally
David Bickel, statistician 
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