Multiple Testing

Thus far, this textbook has mostly focused on estimation and its close cousin, prediction. In this chapter, we instead focus on hypothesis testing, which is key to conducting inference. We remind the reader that inference was briey discussed in Chapter 2.

Authors and Affiliations

1. Department of Data Science and Operations, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

   Gareth James

2. Department of Statistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA

   Daniela Witten

3. Department of Statistics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA

   Trevor Hastie & Robert Tibshirani

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Correspondence to Gareth James .

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