A geometric interpretation of the permutation p-value and its application in eQTL studies

Annals of Applied Statistics

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 1014-1033

  Sun, Wei ^a   Wright, Fred A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Effective number of independent tests; Gene expression quantitative trait loci (eQTL); Permutation p value

Indexed keywords

EID: 78249241473     PISSN: 19326157     EISSN: 19417330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/09-AOAS298     Document Type: Article

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