Bayesian gene set analysis for identifying significant biological pathways

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C: Applied Statistics

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 541-557

  Shahbaba, Babak ^a   Tibshirani, Robert ^b   Shachaf, Catherine M ^b   Plevritis, Sylvia K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biological pathways; Hierarchical Bayesian models; Mixture priors

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960841555     PISSN: 00359254     EISSN: 14679876     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9876.2011.00765.x     Document Type: Article

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