Improved mean estimation and its application to diagonal discriminant analysis

Bioinformatics

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 531-537

  Tong, Tiejun ^a   Chen, Liang ^b   Zhao, Hongyu ^c  

^a HONG KONG BAPTIST UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; DNA MICROARRAY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; HUMAN; LEUKEMIA; METHODOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SAMPLE SIZE;

DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SAMPLE SIZE;

EID: 84857178244     PISSN: 13674803     EISSN: 14602059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btr690     Document Type: Article

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