Shrinkage estimation of dispersion in Negative Binomial models for RNA-seq experiments with small sample size

Bioinformatics

Volumn 29, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1275-1282

  Yu, Danni ^a,b   Huber, Wolfgang ^a   Vitek, Olga ^b,c  

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Purdue University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ARTICLE; BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; PROBABILITY; SAMPLE SIZE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PROBABILITY; RNA; SAMPLE SIZE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84877934435     PISSN: 13674803     EISSN: 14602059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btt143     Document Type: Article

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