Robustly detecting differential expression in RNA sequencing data using observation weights

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 42, Issue 11, 2014, Pages

  Zhou, Xiaobei ^a   Lindsay, Helen ^a   Robinson, Mark D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; FALSE DISCOVERY PLOT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENERALIZED LINEAR MODEL; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NEGATIVE BINOMIAL MODEL; PLOTS AND CURVES; POWER CURVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RNA SEQUENCE; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA;

EID: 84903146127     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gku310     Document Type: Article

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