A note on inferring acyclic network structures using granger causality tests

International Journal of Biostatistics

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Nagarajan, Radhakrishnan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Gene Networks; Granger Causality; VAR process

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOREGULATION; BIOLOGY; BIOSTATISTICS; ERROR; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; GENE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NOISE; PARAMETER; SAMPLE SIZE; SIMULATION; STATISTICS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETICS; HUMAN; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

CAUSALITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD;

EID: 65849504774     PISSN: 15574679     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1557-4679.1119     Document Type: Article

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