A unified statistical framework for single cell and bulk rna sequencing data

Annals of Applied Statistics

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2018, Pages 609-632

  Zhu, Lingxue ^a   Lei, Jing ^a   Devlin, Bernie ^b   Roeder, Kathryn ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

EM algorithm; Empirical Bayes; Gibbs sampling; Hierarchical model; Single cell RNA sequencing

Indexed keywords

EID: 85044199072     PISSN: 19326157     EISSN: 19417330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/17-AOAS1110     Document Type: Article

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