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Computational and statistical issues in personalized medicine

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Computational and statistical issues in personalized medicine

Computational methods can be used to find associations between our genome and our traits, and new optimizations to these computations promise to do it much faster.

By Christoph Lippert, David Heckerman, July 2015

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Hidden Markov models and mouse ultrasonic vocalizations

Hidden Markov models and mouse ultrasonic vocalizations

An introduction to Markov models, their significance, and an explanation of how a hidden Markov model can be used to model the ultrasonic calls made by mice.

By Adam A. Smith, July 2015

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DEPARTMENT: Hello world

Matrix function

By Marinka Zitnik, March 2013

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Taming big probability distributions

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Taming big probability distributions

New algorithms for estimating parameters of distributions over big domains need significantly fewer samples.

By Ronitt Rubinfeld, September 2012

PDF | HTML | In the Digital Library