An Adaptive Genetic Association Test Using Double Kernel Machines

Statistics in Biosciences

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 262-281

  Zhan, Xiang ^a   Epstein, Michael P ^b   Ghosh, Debashis ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Double kernel machine; Garrote kernel machine; Least squares kernel machine; Subset testing; Thresholding

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; KERNEL METHOD; KNOWLEDGE; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84943356309     PISSN: 18671764     EISSN: 18671772     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12561-014-9116-2     Document Type: Article

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