A pilot study on the application of statistical classification procedures to molecular epidemiological data

Toxicology Letters

Volumn 151, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 291-299

  Schwender, Holger ^a   Zucknick, Manuela ^b   Ickstadt, Katja ^a   Bolt, Hermann M ^a,c   Justenhoven, C ^d   Brauch, H ^d   Pesch, B ^d   Harth, V ^d   Hamann, U ^d   Bruning T ^d   Ko, Y ^d  

^a TU DORTMUND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c LEIBNIZ RESEARCH CENTRE FOR WORKING ENVIRONMENT AND HUMAN FACTORS   (Germany)

^d NONE

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Classification; Classification and regression trees (CART); Ensemble methods; Single nucleotide polymorphism; Support vector machines

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE LOCUS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; PILOT PROJECTS; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 2942612346     PISSN: 03784274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.toxlet.2004.02.021     Document Type: Article

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