[BioC] Fwd: Presentation 19th June

[Mark Robinson]

apologies for those already on the CSSE list ... but might be of  
interest.

oh, and presumably the "L5 meeting room" means this:
http://wwwgenome.csse.unimelb.edu.au/taxonomy/term/5

m.

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Justin Bedo <justin.bedo at nicta.com.au>
> Date: 15 June 2009 2:07:48 PM
> To: genomics-research at csse.unimelb.edu.au
> Subject: Presentation 19th June
>
> Dear all,
>
> This week's presentation will be give by two guests, Enes Makalic  
> and Daniel
> Schmidt, from the Centre for MEGA Epidemiology. As usual, we are in  
> the L5
> meeting room and will start at 9am.
>
> Regards,
> Justin
>
> Title: An Information Theoretic Approach to Analysing GWAS Data
>
> Abstract: Analysis of GWAS data often proceeds by performing many  
> independent
> tests of association between genotypic data and phenotypes. A common
> frequentist approach is to convert the data into contingency table  
> form,
> compute suitable test statistics and correct for multiple testing  
> using a
> Bonferroni-type procedure. This talk examines an alternative  
> approach based on
> information theory in which there is no requirement for either a  
> `null'
> hypothesis or specification of a significance level. Although not  
> strictly a
> Bayesian method, the resulting procedure essentially yields posterior
> probabilities over association that can be used as an extra tool in
> interpreting GWAS data.

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Mark Robinson, PhD (Melb)
Epigenetics Laboratory, Garvan
Bioinformatics Division, WEHI
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