A two-stage random forest-based pathway analysis method

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Chung, Ren Hua ^a,b   Chen, Ying Erh ^c  

^a NATIONAL HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTES   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE INTERACTION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; RANDOM FOREST; SIMULATION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TWO-STAGE RANDOM FOREST-BASED PATHWAY ANALYSIS METHOD; ALGORITHM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETICS; METABOLISM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DATABASES, GENETIC; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 84860631518     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0036662     Document Type: Article

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