no code implementations • 12 Dec 2018 • Tzu-Yu Liu, Ajay Kannan, Adam Drake, Marvin Bertin, Nathan Wan
Statistical learning on biological data can be challenging due to confounding variables in sample collection and processing.
no code implementations • 7 Dec 2018 • Kabir Manghnani, Adam Drake, Nathan Wan, Imran Haque
These effects include both technical effects, such as variation across batches from instrument noise or sample processing, or institution-specific differences in sample acquisition and physical handling, as well as biological effects arising from true but irrelevant differences in the biology of each sample, such as age biases in diseases.