Application of multidimensional selective item response regression model for studying multiple gene methylation in SV40 oncogenic pathways

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 103, Issue 481, 2008, Pages 201-211

  Lin, Haiqun ^a   Feng, Ziding ^b   Yu, Yan ^c   Zheng, Yingye ^b   Shivapurkar, Narayan ^d   Gazdar, Adi F ^d  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomarker; Causal pathway; Factor analysis; Genetic algorithm; Identification; Item response; Joint model; Latent variable; Specification search

Indexed keywords

EID: 42349104040     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/016214507000000428     Document Type: Article

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