BClass: A Bayesian Approach Based on Mixture Models for Clustering and Classification of Heterogeneous Biological Data

Based on mixture models, we present a Bayesian method (called BClass) to classify biological entities (e.g. genes) when variables of quite heterogeneous nature are analyzed. Various statistical distributions are used to model the continuous/categorical data commonly produced by genetic experiments a...

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Main Authors: Arturo Medrano-Soto, J. Andres Christen, Julio Collado-vides
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Foundation for Open Access Statistics 2004-12-01
Series:Journal of Statistical Software
Online Access:http://www.jstatsoft.org/index.php/jss/article/view/1441