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Table 1 BioConductor Quality Control Statistics

From: Unsupervised assessment of microarray data quality using a Gaussian mixture model

Quality Statistic1

Description

mean.raw.int, sd.raw.int, median.raw.int, interQuartile.raw.int

mean, standard deviation, median and inter-quartile range of raw log intensity distribution.

q.5.raw.int, q.95.raw.int

5th and 95th percentile of raw log intensity distribution.

slope.bias, p.bias

slope parameter and associated p-value of linear regression of log expression level versus probe number, as computed by R affy library function AffyRNAdeg().

mean.norm.int, sd.norm.int, median.norm.int, interQuartile.norm.int, q.5.norm.int, q.95.norm.int

mean, standard deviation, median, inter-quartile range, and 5th and 95th percentiles of normalized log intensity distribution.

PLM.w.q.0.001, PLM.w.q.0.01, PLM.w.q.0.1, PLM.w.q.0.2

0.1th, 1st, 10th and 20th percentile of the probe-level model weights, computed using affyPLM library functionality.

PLM.res.q.0.01, PLM.res.q.0.1, PLM.res.q.0.25, PLM.res.q.0.75, PLM.res.q.0.9, PLM.res.q.0.99

1st, 10th, 25th, 75th, 90th, and 99th percentile of probe-level model residuals, computed using affyPLM library functionality.

RLE.median, RLE.interQuartile, RLE.lower.whisker, RLE.upper.whisker

median, inter-quartile range, lower tail and upper tail of "relative log intensity", computed using affyPLM library functionality.

  1. 1. The "SCORE" function was used to normalize values for each statistic, t, for each chip, i, relative to the values observed in other chips from the same experiment: ; with median() and mad() computed across all chips in the experiment.