Error-rate and decision-theoretic methods of multiple testing: Which genes have high objective probabilities of differential expression?

Statistical Applications in Genetics and Molecular Biology

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2004, Pages

  Bickel, David R ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Gene expression; Multiple comparisons; Multiple hypotheses; Nonparametric empirical Bayes; Positive false discovery rate; Proportion of false positives

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANALYTIC METHOD; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CANCER GENETICS; CANCER PATIENT; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DENSITY; DNA MICROARRAY; EXPERIMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HYPOTHESIS; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PARAMETER; PROBABILITY; RANDOMIZATION; SAMPLING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS; THEORETICAL STUDY; VALIDATION PROCESS; DECISION THEORY; ERROR;

EID: 14644402541     PISSN: 15446115     EISSN: 15446115     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1544-6115.1043     Document Type: Article

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