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Robert Tibshirani

Researcher at Stanford University

Publications -  620
Citations -  359457

Robert Tibshirani is an academic researcher from Stanford University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Lasso (statistics) & Gene expression profiling. The author has an hindex of 147, co-authored 593 publications receiving 326580 citations. Previous affiliations of Robert Tibshirani include University of Toronto & University of California.

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De Novo Mutational Signature Discovery in Tumor Genomes using SparseSignatures

TL;DR: This work presents SparseSignatures, a novel framework to extract signatures from somatic point mutation data that incorporates DNA replication error as a background, employs regularization to reduce noise in non-background signatures, uses cross-validation to identify the number of signatures, and is scalable to large datasets.
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Why cars in the next lane seem to go faster

TL;DR: It is suggested that this illusion occurs because more time is generally spent being overtaken by other vehicles than is spent in overtaking them, and knowing that this effect is illusory might encourage drivers to resist small temptations to change lanes.