Quantifying the fraction of missing information for hypothesis testing in statistical and genetic studies

Statistical Science

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 287-312

  Nicolae, Dan L ^a   Meng, Xiao Li ^b   Kong, Augustine ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c DECODE GENETICS   (Iceland)

Author keywords

Cox regression; EM algorithm; Entropy; Fisher information; Genetic linkage studies; Haplotype based association studies; Kullback Leibler information; Noninformative prior; Partial likelihood; Relative information

Indexed keywords

EID: 59349096892     PISSN: 08834237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/07-STS244     Document Type: Article

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