In the problem of large-scale multiple testing
the p-plot is a graphically based competitor to
the notoriously weak Bonferroni method. The p-plot
is less stringent and more revealing in that it gives a
gauge of how many hypotheses are decidedly false. The method
is elucidated and extended here: the bootstrap reveals
bias and sampling error in the usual point estimates, a
bootstrap-based confidence interval for the gauge is given,
as well as two acceptably powerful blanket tests of significance.
Guidelines for use are given, and interpretational pitfalls
pointed out, in the discussion of a case study linking
premortem neuropsychological and postmortem neuropathologic
data in an HIV cohort study. (JINS, 1999, 5,
510–517)