A Latent Variable Approach for Meta-Analysis of Gene Expression Data from Multiple Microarray Experiments

BMC Bioinformatics

Table 4 Results of MCMC POE-based survival analysis

Analysis	Variable	Coef	p-value
Univariate	Risk Index	0.036	< 0.001
Multivariate	Risk Index	0.027	0.008
	Estrogen Receptor Pos	-0.580	0.120
	Age	-0.056	0.030

Cox proportional hazards model fitted to time distant metastasis in lymph node from [14]. Risk indices were derived based on the POE data transformed by the MCMC algorithm.

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