RCMAT: A regularized covariance matrix approach to testing gene sets

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 10, Issue , 2009, Pages 300-

  Yates, Phillip D ^a   Reimers, Mark A ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENES; STATISTICAL TESTS;

ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES; CORRELATION STRUCTURE; DATA COMPARISONS; FALSE POSITIVE RATES; MICROARRAY DATA; MULTIVARIATE APPROACH; SAMPLE SIZES; TESTING PROCEDURE;

COVARIANCE MATRIX;

ACCURACY; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; GENE IDENTIFICATION; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; REGULARIZED COVARIANCE MATRIX MULTIVARIATE STATISTICAL TEST;

EID: 70449359814     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-10-300     Document Type: Article

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