Clustering gene expression time course data using mixtures of multivariate t-distributions

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 142, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1114-1127

  McNicholas, Paul D ^a   Subedi, Sanjeena ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cholesky decomposition; Gene expression; Mixture models; Model based clustering; Multivariate t distributions; Time course data

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856019252     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jspi.2011.11.026     Document Type: Article

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