A note on generalized Genome Scan Meta-Analysis statistics

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 6, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Koziol, James A ^a   Feng, Anne C ^a  

^a SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHROMOSOMAL REGIONS; EDGEWORTH APPROXIMATIONS; LIMITING DISTRIBUTIONS; MULTIPLE TESTING; NULL DISTRIBUTION; PAIRWISE CORRELATION; STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES; TESTING CRITERIA;

GENES; STATISTICAL TESTS;

STATISTICS;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 2Q; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOME SCAN META ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LINKAGE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PROBABILITY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SCHIZOPHRENIA; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; THEORETICAL MODEL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGY; CHROMOSOME; CHROMOSOME MAP; COMPUTER PROGRAM; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; GENOME; HUMAN GENOME; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); METHODOLOGY; PROCEDURES; STATISTICAL MODEL;

CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOME; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PROBABILITY; RESEARCH DESIGN; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SOFTWARE;

EID: 25444486955     PISSN: 14712105     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-6-32     Document Type: Article

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