Hypothesis tests for point-mass mixture data with application to 'omics data with many zero values

Statistical Applications in Genetics and Molecular Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Taylor, Sandra ^a   Pollard, Katherine ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis; Empirical likelihood; Likelihood ratio test; Metabolomics; Point mass mixture; Two part statistics

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME MAP; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENETICS; GENOMICS; METABOLISM; METABOLOMICS; ROC CURVE; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

ALLELES; ARABIDOPSIS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENOMICS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; METABOLOMICS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; ROC CURVE;

EID: 62449131424     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15446115     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1544-6115.1425     Document Type: Article

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