Chunk #67 — Online Methods — Estimate π by maximum likelihood.

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Flexible statistical methods for estimating and testing effects in genomic studies with multiple conditions.

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If the rows of B^ are not independent, this may be interpreted as a “composite likelihood”36, which generally yields consistent point estimates. (We also empirically confirmed that our GTEx results were robust to LD pruning of SNPs; see Supplementary Fig. 9.)