Accurate ranking of differentially expressed genes by a distribution-free shrinkage approach

Statistical Applications in Genetics and Molecular Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Opgen Rhein, Rainer ^a   Strimmer, Korbinian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

High dimensional case control data; James Stein shrinkage; Limited translation; Quasi empirical Bayes; Regularized t statistic; Variance shrinkage references

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GENE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENE VECTOR; GENETIC PROCEDURES; PARAMETER; SHRINKAGE T STATISTIC; BAYES THEOREM; GENE EXPRESSION; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BAYES THEOREM; GENE EXPRESSION; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS;

EID: 33847302479     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15446115     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1544-6115.1252     Document Type: Article

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