Partitioning to uncover conditions for permutation tests to control multiple testing error rates

Biometrical Journal

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 756-766

  Calian, Violeta ^a   Li, Dongmei ^b   Hsu, Jason C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Error rate; Gene expressions; Partitioning principle; Permutation tests; Quantitative trait loci

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL TESTS;

CONDITION; ERROR RATE; FAMILYWISE ERROR RATE; GENES EXPRESSION; JOINT DISTRIBUTIONS; MARGINAL DISTRIBUTION; MULTIPLE TEST; PARTITIONING PRINCIPLE; PERMUTATION TESTS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS;

GENE EXPRESSION;

EID: 54549094960     PISSN: 03233847     EISSN: 15214036     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bimj.200710471     Document Type: Article

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