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CIKM
2007
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
2007
Springer
Information retrieval (IR) researchers commonly use three tests of statistical significance: the Student's paired t-test, the Wilcoxon signed rank test, and the sign test. Ot...
SIGIR
2005
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
2005
ACM
The effectiveness of information retrieval systems is measured by comparing performance on a common set of queries and documents. Significance tests are often used to evaluate the...
BMCBI
2004
13 years 4 months ago
2004
Background: Profile-based analysis of multiple sequence alignments (MSA) allows for accurate comparison of protein families. Here, we address the problems of detecting statistical...
HPDC
2010
IEEE
13 years 5 months ago
2010
IEEE
Sequence comparison is considered as a cornerstone application in bioinformatics, which forms the basis of many other applications. In particular, pairwise sequence alignment is a...
RECOMB
2004
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
2004
Springer
Identifying gene clusters, genomic regions that share local similarities in gene organization, is a prerequisite for many different types of genomic analyses, including operon pred...