Efficient p-value estimation in massively parallel testing problems

Biostatistics

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 601-612

  Kustra, Rafal ^a   Shi, Xiaofei ^a,b   Murdoch, Duncan J ^c   Greenwood, Celia M T ^a,b   Rangrej, Jagadish ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bayesian testing; Genome wide association studies; Interaction effects; P value distribution; Permutation distribution; Random Forest

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COLORECTAL TUMOR; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC MARKER; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BAYES THEOREM; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; GENETIC MARKERS; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS;

EID: 52449109945     PISSN: 14654644     EISSN: 14684357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biostatistics/kxm053     Document Type: Article

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