A two-sample test for high-dimensional data with applications to gene-set testing

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 808-835

  Chen, Song Xi ^a,b   Qin, Ying Li ^a  

^a Department of Statistics Center for Statistics and Applications in Forensic Evidence Iowa State University 2438 Osborn Dr Ames   (United States)

^b Peking University   (China)

Author keywords

Gene set testing; High dimension; Large p small n; Martingale central limit theorem; Multiple comparison

Indexed keywords

EID: 77649330805     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/09-AOS716     Document Type: Article

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