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Table 1 Overview of the evaluated normalization methods. The compared normalization methods and their corresponding properties. a The spatial effect is constrained to print-tip based effects. b The method can be extended to support this feature.

From: Orthogonal projections to latent structures as a strategy for microarray data normalization

Method name

Short name

Ratio-based

Spatial

Between-array

Global median

Median

Yes

No

No

Global loess

Loess

Yes

No

No

Print-tip loess

PT-loess

Yes

Yesa

No

Print-tip loess with Tquantile norm.

PT-loess/Tq

Yes/Yes

Yesa/No

No/Yes

OLIN

OLIN

Yes

Yes

No

VSN

VSN

No

Nob

No

Global loess with ANOVA

ANOVA

Yes/No

No/Yes

No/Yes

OPLS

OPLS

No

Yes

Yes