The human microbiome is the totality of all microbes in and on the human body, and its importance in health and disease has been increasingly recognized. High-throughput sequencing technologies have recently enabled scientists to obtain an unbiased quantification of all microbes constituting the...

type="main" xml:id="rssb12064-abs-0001" <title type="main">Summary</title> <p>The paper develops a unified theoretical and computational framework for false discovery control in multiple testing of spatial signals. We consider both pointwise and clusterwise spatial analyses, and derive oracle procedures which optimally...</p>

type="main" xml:id="rssb12034-abs-0001" <title type="main">Summary</title> <p>The paper considers in the high dimensional setting a canonical testing problem in multivariate analysis, namely testing the equality of two mean vectors. We introduce a new test statistic that is based on a linear transformation of the data by the...</p>