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Big Data. Everybody knows what it is. Except that nobody actually does.
Big Data is a big thing indeed.The way companies and research institutes are approaching the problem of data analysis with respect to the trends of a few years ago is changing the entire scene of the industry, marketing and clinical … Continue reading
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Tagged analytics, big data, business, companies, healthcare, statistics
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Discovering Main Genetic Interactions with LABNet LAsso-Based Network Inference
Genome-wide association studies can potentially unravel the mechanisms behind complex traits and common genetic diseases. Despite the valuable results produced thus far, many questions remain unanswered.
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Tagged big data, genetics, graph, lasso, mathematics, networks, statistics
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Increase production in a cooperative research environment: installing and setup of Git server
Disclaimer: In this post you will not find any math, any formula, any deep thought about science. This is an howto post that somehow allows us (and other scientists) to do science. When it is time to cooperate with colleagues, coding … Continue reading
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Tagged big data, collaboration, computer, concurrent, git, setup, ubuntu, versioning
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Why is Principal Component Analysis a bust for genetics
I am not a fan of Principal Component Analysis. At least not for big data analysis. I still find it awkward to apply such concepts to, e.g. genetic data. As a brief explanation, for given variables , a principal component is … Continue reading
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Tagged big data, genetics, PCA, Principal Component Analysis, R, statistics
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Bonferroni is too stringent, fine. Go FDR!
Multiple testing in statistics is quite a fully developed topic to write about in 2014. When multiple testing is applied to the analysis of big data it may still lead to inconsistencies and issues that are usually not expected from … Continue reading
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Tagged big data, bonferroni, false discovery rate, family wise error rate, multiple testing
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