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Table 4 Thresholds of BF, BH, BY, M1, M2, and M3 procedures for the sorted p-values

From: Modifying the false discovery rate procedure based on the information theory under arbitrary correlation structure and its performance in high-dimensional genomic data

Procedures

Rank of p-values

1

2

3

…

K

I. Adjusted Thresholds

BF

\(\frac{1}{P}\alpha\)

\(\frac{1}{P}\alpha\)

\(\frac{1}{P}\alpha\)

…

\(\frac{k}{P}\alpha\)

BH

\(\frac{1}{P}\alpha\)

\(\frac{2}{P}\alpha\)

\(\frac{3}{P}\alpha\)

…

\(\frac{k}{P}\alpha\)

BY

\(\frac{1}{P\times C(P)}\alpha\)

\(\frac{2}{P\times C(P)}\alpha\)

\(\frac{3}{P\times C(P)}\alpha\)

…

\(\frac{k}{P\times C(P)}\alpha\)

M1

\(\frac{1}{P}\alpha\)

\(\frac{1+\frac{\left(1-\left|{r}_{2}\right|\right)}{\left(1+\left|{r}_{2}\right|\right)}}{P}\alpha\)

\(\frac{1+(\frac{\left(1-\left|{r}_{2}\right|\right)}{\left(1+\left|{r}_{2}\right|\right)}+\frac{\left(1-\left|{r}_{3}\right|\right)}{\left(1+\left|{r}_{3}\right|\right)})}{P}\alpha\)

…

\(\frac{1+\sum_{i=2}^{k}\frac{(1-\left|{r}_{i}\right|)}{(1+\left|{r}_{i}\right|)}}{P}\alpha\)

M2

\(\frac{1}{P}\alpha\)

\(\frac{1+(1-\left|{r}_{2}\right|)}{P}\alpha\)

\(\frac{1+(1-\left|{r}_{2}\right|+1-\left|{r}_{3}\right|)}{P}\alpha\)

…

\(\frac{1+\sum_{i=2}^{k}(1-\left|{r}_{i}\right|)}{P}\alpha\)

M3

\(\frac{1}{P}\alpha\)

\(\frac{1+(1-{\rho r}_{2}^{2})}{P}\alpha\)

\(\frac{1+\left(1-{r}_{2}^{2}\right)+(1-{r}_{3}^{2})}{P}\alpha\)

…

\(\frac{1+\sum_{i=2}^{k}(1-{r}_{i}^{2})}{P}\alpha\)

II. Adjusted p-values

BF

\(P\times\) p(1)

\(P\times\) p(2)

\(P\times\) p(3)

…

\(P\times\) p(k)

BH

\(P\times\) p(1)

\(\frac{P}{2}\times\) p(2)

\(\frac{P}{3}\times\) p(3)

…

\(\frac{P}{k}\times\) p(k)

BY

\(P\times C\left(P\right)\times\) p(1)

\(\frac{P\times C(P)}{2}\times\) p(2)

\(\frac{P\times C(P)}{3}\times\) p(3)

…

\(\frac{P\times C(P)}{k}\times\) p(k)

M1

\(P\times\) p(1)

\(\frac{P}{1+\frac{\left(1-\left|{r}_{2}\right|\right)}{\left(1+\left|{r}_{2}\right|\right)}}\times\) p(2)

\(\frac{P}{1+(\frac{\left(1-\left|{r}_{2}\right|\right)}{\left(1+\left|{r}_{2}\right|\right)}+\frac{\left(1-\left|{r}_{3}\right|\right)}{\left(1+\left|{r}_{3}\right|\right)})}\times\) p(3)

…

\(\frac{P}{1+\sum_{i=2}^{k}\frac{(1-\left|{r}_{i}\right|)}{(1+\left|{r}_{i}\right|)}}\times\) p(k)

M2

\(P\times\) p(1)

\(\frac{P}{1+(1-\left|{r}_{2}\right|)}\times\) p(2)

\(\frac{P}{1+(1-\left|{r}_{2}\right|+1-\left|{r}_{3}\right|)}\times\) p(3)

…

\(\frac{P}{1+\sum_{i=2}^{k}(1-\left|{r}_{i}\right|)}\times\) p(k)

M3

\(P\times\) p(1)

\(\frac{P}{1+(1-{\rho r}_{2}^{2})}\times\) p(2)

\(\frac{P}{P1+\left(1-{r}_{2}^{2}\right)+(1-{r}_{3}^{2})}\times\) p(3)

…

\(\frac{P}{1+\sum_{i=2}^{k}(1-{r}_{i}^{2})}\times\) p(k)