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Identifying Graphical Models

23 September 2013
M. Shevlyakova
Stephan Morgenthaler
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Abstract

The ability to identify reliably a positive or negative partial correlation between the expression levels of two genes is influenced by the number ppp of genes, the number nnn of analyzed samples, and the statistical properties of the measurements. Classical statistical theory teaches that the product of the root sample size multiplied by the size of the partial correlation is the crucial quantity. But this has to be combined with some adjustment for multiplicity depending on ppp, which makes the classical analysis somewhat arbitrary. We investigate this problem through the lens of the Kullback-Leibler divergence, which is a measure of the average information for detecting an effect. We conclude that commonly sized studies in genetical epidemiology are not able to reliably detect moderately strong links.

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