A new measure of the effective number of tests, a practical tool for comparing families of non-independent significance tests

Genetic Epidemiology

Volumn 33, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 559-568

  Galwey, Nicholas W ^a  

^a GLAXOSMITHKLINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Eigenvalue; Fisher's method; Genetic association; Linkage disequilibrium; id k correction; Whole genome scan

Indexed keywords

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; FISHER EXACT TEST; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENOTYPE; NULL HYPOTHESIS; SAMPLE SIZE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ALLELES; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; GENE FREQUENCY; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RESEARCH DESIGN; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 70350638990     PISSN: 07410395     EISSN: 10982272     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gepi.20408     Document Type: Article

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