A powerful truncated tail strength method for testing multiple null hypotheses in one dataset

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 277, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 67-73

  Jiang, Bo ^a   Zhang, Xiao ^a   Zuo, Yijun ^b   Kang, Guolian ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Monte Carlo; Tail strength; Truncated tail strength

Indexed keywords

DATA SET; GENOME; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; ERROR; FISHER EXACT TEST; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NULL HYPOTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TAIL STRENGTH METHOD; TRUNCATED TAIL STRENGTH METHOD;

ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DATABASES AS TOPIC; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD;

EID: 79952346659     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: 10958541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2011.01.029     Document Type: Article

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