[BioC] Filtering and Multiple Testing

[Robert Gentleman]

On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 12:00:11PM -0600, Jeff Sorenson wrote:
> Just curious .... The genefiltering package doesn't seem to account for
> multiple testing.  We have a separate package for that: multtest.  Since
> adjustments for multiple testing are essential, are there plans to
> incorporate that functionality into genefilter?  Or are most people just
> doing their filtering with the multtest package and not using genefilter
> anymore?

 I tend to think of them as separate operations, filtering and
 assessment, and for many of the filters there is no p-value to be
 adjusted (eg kOverA or gapFilter etc). So, the sort answer is no, but
 that is not intended to preclude some useful innovation should
 someone want to do it,
   Robert


> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jeff Sorenson
> 
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