Estimation of Low Quantity Genes: A Hierarchical Model for Analyzing Censored Quantitative Real-Time PCR Data

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Boyer, Tim C ^a   Hanson, Tim ^b   Singer, Randall S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; DATA ANALYSIS; DNA EXTRACTION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENETIC DATABASE; HIERARCHICAL MODEL; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIMIT OF QUANTITATION; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; TETL GENE;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENE DOSAGE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84878527915     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0064900     Document Type: Article

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