type="main" xml:id="rssb12028-abs-0001" <title type="main">Summary</title> <p>In many complex multiple-testing problems the hypotheses are divided into families. Given the data, families with evidence for true discoveries are selected, and hypotheses within them are tested. Neither controlling the error rate in each family...</p>

I describe the background for the paper 'Controlling the false discovery rate: a new and powerful approach to multiple comparisons' by Benjamini and Hochberg that was published in the "Journal of the Royal Statistical Society", Series B, in 1995. I review the progress since made on the false...