Bayesian methods to overcome the winner's curse in genetic studies

Annals of Applied Statistics

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 201-231

  Xu, Lizhen ^a   Craiu, Radu V ^a   Sun, Lei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Association study; Bayesian model averaging; Hierarchical Bayes model; Spike and slab prior; Winner's curse

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955558526     PISSN: 19326157     EISSN: 19417330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/10-AOAS373     Document Type: Article

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