Storey estimator

This is an internal function that calculates the basic Storey (2002) estimator of a, the proportion of alternative hypotheses.

storey(edf.quantile, pvals)

Arguments

edf.quantile

(required): the quantile of the empirical distribution function at which to estimate a

pvals

(required): a vector of pvals on which to conduct the multiple testing

Value

estimate of a, the number of alternative hypotheses

See also

Other FDR: fdr(), fdr.master(), fdrBasic(), propAlt()

Author

Chris Paciorek