Article
Non-specific filtering of beta-distributed data.
BMC bioinformatics - 19 Jun 2014
Wang Xinhui, Laird Peter W, Hinoue Toshinori, Groshen Susan, Siegmund Kimberly D
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Non-specific feature selection is a dimension reduction procedure performed prior to cluster analysis of high dimensional molecular data. Not all measured features are expected to show biological variation, so only the most varying are selected for analysis. In DNA methylation studies, DNA methylation is measured as a proportion, bounded between 0 and 1, with variance a function of the mean. Filtering...
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