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Alternative contingency table measures improve the power and detection of multifactor dimensionality reduction.
BMC bioinformatics - 16 May 2008
Bush William S, Edwards Todd L, Dudek Scott M, McKinney Brett A, Ritchie Marylyn D
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BACKGROUND: 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 high- or low-risk groups and measuring the percentage of cases and controls incorrectly labelled by this classification - the classification error. The combination of...
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