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Multiple Testing

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An Introduction to Statistical Learning

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Thus far, this textbook has mostly focused on estimation and its close cousin, prediction. In this chapter, we instead focus on hypothesis testing, which is key to conducting inference. We remind the reader that inference was briey discussed in Chapter 2.

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James, G., Witten, D., Hastie, T., Tibshirani, R. (2021). Multiple Testing. In: An Introduction to Statistical Learning. Springer Texts in Statistics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-1418-1_13

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