Effect of size and heterogeneity of samples on biomarker discovery: Synthetic and real data assessment

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Di Camillo, Barbara ^a   Sanavia, Tiziana ^a   Martini, Matteo ^a   Jurman, Giuseppe ^b   Sambo, Francesco ^a   Barla, Annalisa ^c   Squillario, Margherita ^c   Furlanello, Cesare ^b   Toffolo, Gianna ^a   Cobelli, Claudio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b FONDAZIONE BRUNO KESSLER   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; COMPUTER MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA EXTRACTION; DATA SYNTHESIS; DISEASE ACTIVITY; EFFECT SIZE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; POPULATION DIFFERENTIATION; POPULATION STRUCTURE; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SAMPLE SIZE; ALGORITHM; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIOLOGY; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; DISEASES; DNA MICROARRAY; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE;

ALGORITHMS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; DISEASE; HUMANS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SAMPLE SIZE; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

EID: 84857768920     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0032200     Document Type: Article

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