Logic forest: An ensemble classifier for discovering logical combinations of binary markers

Bioinformatics

Volumn 26, Issue 17, 2010, Pages 2183-2189

  Wolf, Bethany J ^a   Hill, Elizabeth G ^a   Slate, Elizabeth H ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PERIODONTAL DISEASE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PERIODONTAL DISEASES; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 77955892255     PISSN: 13674803     EISSN: 14602059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btq354     Document Type: Article

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