Efficient exact p-value computation for small sample, sparse, and surprising categorical data

Journal of Computational Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 867-886

  Bejerano, Gill ^a   Friedman, Nir ^b   Tishby, Naftali ^b  

^a University of California   (United States)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Branch and bound; Categorical data; Exact tests; p value; Real extension

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

EID: 8444226033     PISSN: 10665277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/cmb.2004.11.867     Document Type: Article

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