The cumulative effect of genetic markers on classification performance: Insights from simple models

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 293, Issue , 2012, Pages 206-218

  Tal, Omri ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Bayes error; Binomial distribution; Correlation; Mutual information; Population differentiation

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; CORRELATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; GENETIC MARKER; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

ACCURACY; ALLELE; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION PERFORMANCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ERROR; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC MARKER; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PERFORMANCE; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BAYES THEOREM; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC LOCI; GENETIC MARKERS; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MODELS, GENETIC;

EID: 80155155993     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: 10958541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2011.10.005     Document Type: Article

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