Bayesian Hierarchical Latent Model for Gene Set Analysis

Pathway is a set of genes which are predefined and serve a particular celluar or physiological function. Ranking pathways relevant to a particular phenotype can help researchers focus on a few sets of genes in pathways. In this thesis, a Bayesian hierarchical latent model was proposed using generali...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Chao, Yi
Other Authors: Statistics
Format: Others
Published: Virginia Tech 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/32060
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-04302009-134407/