Storey was the founding director of the Princeton University Center for Statistics and Machine Learning.
At the time the false discovery rate had only been studied in the context of sequential p-value methods and it was not yet in widespread use.
He simultaneously proved a result showing that the positive false discovery rate (pFDR) is exactly equal to a Bayesian posterior probability, thereby providing the first direct connection between false discovery rates and Bayesian theory.
[4] In these works, he also invented the q-value, which is a false discovery rate analogue of the p-value.
[6] Leek and Storey introduced "surrogate variable analysis", which is a high-dimensional regression model that includes both known and unknown covariates.