Table 4 Experimental comparison of hypothesis testing methods. The microarray data consists of 1973 genes partitioned into 12 quasi independent n₁ = 2 and n₂ = 2 subsets using replicate experiments of 4 control and 4 treatment runs [26, 27]. The number of genes detected as differentially expressed using each method is listed for an α = 0.01 significance level (there was no correction for multiple testing) and different prior degrees of freedom (ν₀). The average number of common genes for the 66 unique comparisons of the 12 subsets is also listed along with the % of commonality (common/detected) for each test.

From: A two-sample Bayesian t-test for microarray data