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Variance and Dispersion Estimate in Genetics

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

The basic idea is to borrow information across genes. Some assume a distribution for the variances/dispersions while others not.

Estimate FDR

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

The problem is actually to estimate the number of null hypotheses.

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