Covariance adjustment for batch effect in gene expression data

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 33, Issue 15, 2014, Pages 2681-2695

  Lee, Jung Ae ^a   Dobbin, Kevin K ^b   Ahn, Jeongyoun ^b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Batch effect; Factor model; Gene expression; High dimensional covariance estimation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COVARIANCE; DATA ANALYSIS; GENE EXPRESSION; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; ADENOCARCINOMA; BREAST TUMOR; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; HUMAN; LUNG TUMOR; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; PROCEDURES; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ADENOCARCINOMA; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84901948036     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.6157     Document Type: Article

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