HIGHER CRITICISM FOR DETECTING SPARSE HETEROGENEOUS MIXTURES 1

adaptive to unknown sparsity and size of the nonnull effects. While our theoretical work is largely asymptotic, we provide simulations in finite samples and suggest some possible applications. We also show that higher critcism works well over a range of non-Gaussian cases.

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