Statistical tests for the intersection of independent lists of genes: Sensitivity, FDR, and type I error control

Annals of Applied Statistics

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 521-541

  Natarajan, Loki ^a   Pu, Minya ^a   Messer, Karen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer; Concordance; Gene expression analysis; Gene ranking; Meta analysis; Microarray; Next generation sequencing; Rank based methods; Validation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866262639     PISSN: 19326157     EISSN: 19417330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/11-AOAS510     Document Type: Article

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