# Changes

## RAREMETAL METHOD

, 00:03, 9 April 2014
VT META ANALYSIS
where $j$ represents any allele frequency in a group of rare variants, $\boldsymbol{\phi}_{f_j}$ is a vector of 0 and 1, indicating if a variant is included in the analysis using frequency threshold $f_i$.
As described by Lin et. al, the null distribution p-value of the this test statistic can be calculated analytically using the fact that the burden test statistics together follow a multivariate normal distribution with mean $\mathbf{0}$ and covariance $\boldsymbol{\Omega}$
$\left(T_{b\left(f_1\right)},T_{b\left(f_2\right)},\dots,T_{b\left(f_m\right)}\right)$$\sim\mathbf{MVN}\left(\mathbf{0},\boldsymbol{\Omega}\right)\text{,}$$\text{where }\boldsymbol{\Omega_{ij}}=\frac{\boldsymbol{\phi}_{f_i}^T\left(\sum_{i=1}^n{\mathbf{V_i}}\right)\boldsymbol{\phi}_{f_j}}{\sqrt{\boldsymbol{\phi}_{f_i}^T\left(\sum_{i=1}^n{\mathbf{V_i}}\right)\boldsymbol{\phi}_{f_i}}\sqrt{\boldsymbol{\phi}_{f_j}^T\left(\sum_{i=1}^n{\mathbf{V_i}}\right)\boldsymbol{\phi}_{f_j}}}$
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