Detecting homogeneous segments in DNA sequences by using hidden Markov models

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C: Applied Statistics

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 269-285

  Boys, Richard J ^a   Henderson, Daniel A ^b   Wilkinson, Darren J ^b  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Bayesian estimation; Bioinformatics; Data augmentation; Deoxyribonucleic acid sequences; Hidden Markov models; Intron 7 of the chimpanzee and human fetoprotein gene; Markov chain Monte Carlo methods

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034360451     PISSN: 00359254     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9876.00191     Document Type: Article

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