Table 1 Number of Genes with Significant Differences between Tumor and Normal Class in Various Cancer Types under the PPST and ABA tests and the parametric t-test (for comparison)
|  | α = 0.1 | α = 0.05 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Data Set | PPST | ABA test (ABA/BAB) | PPST | ABA test (ABA/BAB) | parametric t α = 0.05 ** |
breast7 | 572 | 40/5 | 326 | 28/49 | 313 |
melanoma15 | 662 | 60/202 | 312 | 38/133 | 347 |
colon45 | 1788 | 55/153 | 1558 | 46/55 | 1378 |
ovarian16 | 3344 | 253/63 | 2060 | 189/22 | 1813 |
lymphoma18 | 2077 | 286/42 | 1114 | 194/30 | 1370 |
lung19 | 614 | 40/3 | 506 | 35/3 | 389 |