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Deciding whether follow-up studies have replicated findings in a preliminary large-scale "omics' study"

Applications 2014-12-09 v2 Methodology

Abstract

We propose a formal method to declare that findings from a primary study have been replicated in a follow-up study. Our proposal is appropriate for primary studies that involve large-scale searches for rare true positives (i.e. needles in a haystack). Our proposal assigns an rr-value to each finding; this is the lowest false discovery rate at which the finding can be called replicated. Examples are given and software is available.

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@article{arxiv.1310.0606,
  title  = {Deciding whether follow-up studies have replicated findings in a preliminary large-scale "omics' study"},
  author = {Ruth Heller and Marina Bogomolov and Yoav Benjamini},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1310.0606},
  year   = {2014}
}