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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
5
pubmed:dateCreated
2009-5-12
pubmed:abstractText
Many statistical methods in biology utilize numerical integration in order to deal with moderately high-dimensional parameter spaces without closed form integrals. One such method is the PPL, a class of models for mapping and modeling genes for complex human disorders. While the most common approach to numerical integration in statistics is MCMC, this is not a good option for the PPL for a variety of reasons, leading us to develop an alternative integration method for this application. We utilize an established sub-region adaptive integration method, but adapt it to specific features of our application. These include division of the multi-dimensional integrals into three separate layers, implementing internal constraints on the parameter space, and calibrating the approximation to ensure adequate precision of results for our application. The proposed approach is compared with an empirically driven fixed grid scheme as well as other numerical integration methods. The new method is shown to require far fewer function evaluations compared to the alternatives while matching or exceeding the best of them in terms of accuracy. The savings in evaluations is sufficiently large that previously intractable problems are now feasible in real time.
pubmed:commentsCorrections
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pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
May
pubmed:issn
1557-8666
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:volume
16
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
659-76
pubmed:dateRevised
2011-8-25
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2009
pubmed:articleTitle
Fast and accurate calculation of a computationally intensive statistic for mapping disease genes.
pubmed:affiliation
Battelle Center for Mathematical Medicine, The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, Ohio 43205, USA. Sang-Cheol.Seok@nationwidechildrens.org
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural