A modified generalized fisher method for combining probabilities from dependent tests

Frontiers in Genetics

Volumn 5, Issue FEB, 2014, Pages

  Dai, Hongying ^a,b,c   Leeder, J Steven ^a,b   Cui, Yuehua ^d  

^a CHILDREN S MERCY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI KANSAS CITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI KANSAS CITY   (United States)

^d MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Correlated p values; Generalized fisher method (lancaster procedure); High dimensional genetic data; Multiple hypothesis testing; Weight function

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DNA METHYLATION; FISHER EXACT TEST; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOTHERAPY; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

EID: 84897743287     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16648021     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2014.00032     Document Type: Article

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