Improved variational Bayes inference for transcript expression estimation

Statistical Applications in Genetics and Molecular Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 203-216

  Papastamoulis, Panagiotis ^a   Hensman, James ^b   Glaus, Peter ^a   Rattray, Magnus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

BitSeq; Generalized Dirichlet distribution; Kullback Leibler divergence; Marginal likelihood bound; Mixture model

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; METHODOLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; RNA SEQUENCE; SIMULATION; STOCHASTIC MODEL; VARIATIONAL BAYESIAN TECHNIQUE; ALGORITHM; BAYES THEOREM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; MARKOV CHAIN; PROCEDURES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; BAYES THEOREM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENE EXPRESSION; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; MARKOV CHAINS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84898659983     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15446115     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/sagmb-2013-0054     Document Type: Article

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