Alternative contingency table measures improve the power and detection of multifactor dimensionality reduction

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Multifactor Dimensionality Reduction (MDR) has been introduced previously as a non-parametric statistical method for detecting gene-gene interactions. MDR performs a dimensional reduction by assigning multi-locus genotypes to either...

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Main Authors: McKinney Brett A, Dudek Scott M, Edwards Todd L, Bush William S, Ritchie Marylyn D
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2008-05-01
Series:BMC Bioinformatics
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/9/238