CorSig: A General Framework for Estimating Statistical Significance of Correlation and Its Application to Gene Co-Expression Analysis

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Wang, Hong Qiang ^a   Tsai, Chung Jui ^b,c  

^a HEFEI INSTITUTES OF PHYSICAL SCIENCE   (China)

^b University of Georgia ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLAVONOID; LIGNIN;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NULL HYPOTHESIS; POPULUS; PROBABILITY; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVALUATION STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PROCEDURES; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLAVONOIDS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POPULUS; SOFTWARE; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84886002427     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0077429     Document Type: Article

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