Correction of unexpected distributions of P values from analysis of whole genome arrays by rectifying violation of statistical assumptions

BMC Genomics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Barton, Sheila J ^a   Crozier, Sarah R ^a   Lillycrop, Karen A ^c   Godfrey, Keith M ^a,b,c   Inskip, Hazel M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SOUTHAMPTON NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Distributions; Epigenome; P values; Statistical analysis; Statistical assumptions; Whole genome methylation promoter arrays

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ALPHA VALUE; ARTICLE; BIOSTATISTICS; BODY COMPOSITION; CPG ISLAND; DATA ANALYSIS; DNA METHYLATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; HETEROSKEDASTICITY; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL AND STATISTICAL PROCEDURES; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PHENOTYPE; PREDICTION; PROBABILITY; PROMOTER REGION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL CONCEPTS; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SYSTEMATIC ERROR;

ALGORITHMS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DNA METHYLATION; GENOME; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC;

EID: 84874805960     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-14-161     Document Type: Article

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