\documentclass[11pt]{article} \setlength{\oddsidemargin}{0.0truein} \setlength{\evensidemargin}{0.0truein} \setlength{\textwidth}{6.5truein} \setlength{\topmargin}{0.0truein} \setlength{\textheight}{9.0truein} \setlength{\headsep}{0.0truein} \setlength{\headheight}{0.0truein} \setlength{\topskip}{10.0pt} \setlength{\parskip}{5mm} \usepackage{url} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{amssymb} \pagestyle{empty} \begin{document} \begin{center} \textbf{\Large{\textsc{STANFORD UNIVERSITY}}}\\[5pt] \textbf{\Large{\textsc{DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS}}}\\[5pt] \Large{\textsc{DEPARTMENTAL SEMINAR}} \end{center} % In the following statements, replace "Time of talk", % "Weekday", and "Date of talk". An example is provided. % If you are not sure about this, just skip this part. \begin{center} 4:15 p.m., Tuesday, May 08, 2007\\ %% Example: 4:15 p.m., Tuesday, February 13, 2007\\ Sequoia Hall Room 200\\ (Cookies at 3:45 in 1st Floor Lounge) \end{center} % In the following statements, replace "Name of the speaker" with your % name, "Department Affiliation" with your department affiliation, and %"University Affiliation" with your university affiliation. \begin{center} \textsl{M.B. Rao} \\ Center for Genome Information\\ University of Cincinnati \end{center} % In the following statements, replace "Title of the talk" % with your title of the talk. \begin{center} \subsection*{On the Control of False Discovery Rate with no Assumption of Dependency} \end{center} % In the following statements, replace "Abstract of the talk" % with your abstract. \noindent In first part of the lecture, issues and ideas surrounding multiple testing of hypotheses will be discussed. Then the focus will be on the Bejamini-Hochberg step-up procedure. An upper bound for the False Discovery Rate (FDR) has been established by Benjamini and Yekutieli no matter what the joint distribution of the underlying p-values is. We point out that this upper bound can not be improved in the sense that there is a joint distribution of p-values for which the upper bound is attained. We present a step-down procedure for which the upper bound is lower than that given by Benjamini and Yekutieli. Practical implications of this result will be discussed. \end{document}