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A new statistical approach to combining p-values using gamma distribution and its application to genome-wide
Background:
Combining information from different studies is an important and useful practice in bioinformatics, including genome-wide association study, rare variant data analysis and other set-based analyses. Many statistical methods have been proposed to combine p-values from independent studies. However, it is known that there is no uniformly most powerful test under all conditions; therefore, finding a powerful test in specific situation is important and desirable.
Results:
In this paper, we propose a new statistical approach to combining p-values based on gamma distribution, which uses the inverse of the p-value as the shape parameter in the gamma distribution.
Conclusions:
Simulation study and real data application demonstrate that the proposed method has good performance under some situations.
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