Table 3

Various choices of normal truncation points implemented in "locfdr".

Version

Released

Truncation Point

Reference

1.1–1

July 2006

z0 = 2

1.1–3

December 2006

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1.1–6

November 2007

as version 1.1–3, but with b = max(1, 4.3m-0.112966)

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