Entropy inference and the James-Stein estimator, with application to nonlinear gene association networks

zbMATH Open1235.62006MaRDI QIDQ2880934FDOQ2880934

Authors Jean Hausser, Korbinian Strimmer 

Publication date 17 April 2012

Published in Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR) (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0811.3579

zbMATH Keywords

mutual informationshrinkage estimationsmall \(n\), large \(p\) setting

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistical aspects of information-theoretic topics (62B10) Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis (62P10) Genetics and epigenetics (92D10) Systems biology, networks (92C42)

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Uses Software

• pcalg
• corpor

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