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Title: Efficient computation for differential network analysis with applications to quadratic discriminant analysis
Authors:
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Award ID(s):
1908969
Publication Date:
NSF-PAR ID:
10192188
Journal Name:
Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
Volume:
144
Issue:
C
Page Range or eLocation-ID:
106884
ISSN:
0167-9473
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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