MetSizeR: Selecting the optimal sample size for metabolomic studies using an analysis based approach

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Nyamundanda, Gift ^a   Gormley, Isobel C ^a   Fan, Yue ^a   Gallagher, William M ^a   Brennan, Lorraine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS-BASED APPROACHES; DATA ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES; EXPERT KNOWLEDGE; METABOLOMIC STUDY; OPTIMAL SAMPLES; PILOT STUDIES; SAMPLE SIZE ESTIMATION; STATISTICAL MODELING;

ESTIMATION; EXPERIMENTS; SAMPLING;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; METABOLOMICS; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PILOT STUDY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SAMPLE SIZE; STANDARD; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; PROCEDURES; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; METABOLOMICS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE, BIOMOLECULAR; PILOT PROJECTS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SAMPLE SIZE; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84887859955     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-14-338     Document Type: Article

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