Comparison of Two Meta-Analysis Methods: Inverse-Variance-Weighted Average and Weighted Sum of Z-Scores

The meta-analysis has become a widely used tool for many applications in bioinformatics, including genome-wide association studies. A commonly used approach for meta-analysis is the fixed effects model approach, for which there are two popular methods: the inverse variance-weighted average method an...

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Main Authors: Cue Hyunkyu Lee, Seungho Cook, Ji Sung Lee, Buhm Han
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Korea Genome Organization 2016-12-01
Series:Genomics & Informatics
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Online Access:http://genominfo.org/upload/pdf/gni-14-173.pdf