What Do We Know?: Simple Statistical Techniques that Help

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 672, Issue , 2011, Pages 531-581

  Nicholls, Anthony ^a  

^a OpenEye Scientific Software Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

ANOVA; AUC; Central Limit Theorem; Confidence limits; Correlation; Enrichment; Error bars; logit transform; p Values; Propagation of error; ROC curves; Standard deviation; Statistics; Student s t test; Variance; Virtual screening

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; MOLECULAR MODEL; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MODELS, STATISTICAL;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 79952118088     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: 19406029     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-60761-839-3_22     Document Type: Chapter

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