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. 2014 Jun 19:5:187.
doi: 10.3389/fgene.2014.00187. eCollection 2014.

Firth logistic regression for rare variant association tests

Xuefeng Wang  1
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Firth logistic regression for rare variant association tests

Xuefeng Wang. Front Genet. .
No abstract available

Keywords: GEE; association test; firth logistic regression; penalized likelihood; rare variants.

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