The Control of the False Discovery Rate in Fixed Sequence Multiple Testing

Understand

Controlling the false discovery rate (FDR) is a powerful approach to multiple testing.

• In many applications, the tested hypotheses have an inherent hierarchical structure.
• In this paper, we focus on the fixed sequence structure where the testing order of the hypotheses has been strictly specified in advance.
• We are motivated to study such a structure, since it is the most basic of hierarchical structures, yet it is often seen in real applications such as statistical process control and streaming data analysis.