BMC Bioinformatics

Table 3 Numerical comparison of analysis methods applied to the real data

From: Missing channels in two-colour microarray experiments: Combining single-channel and two-channel data

	Comb. (k_est)	Comb. (k_{fix = 0.5})	Comb. (k_{fix = 0.25})	Unaffected	Single Channel	SC (damaged)	Inclusive
Combined(k_est)	-	0.88	0.89	0.83	0.70	0.62	0.57
Combined(k_{fix = 0.5})	904	-	0.98	0.80	0.78	0.71	0.56
Combined(k_{fix = 0.25})	842	922	-	0.88	0.74	0.66	0.57
Unaffected Data	669	723	788	-	0.58	0.48	0.53
Single Channel	750	725	686	575	-	0.84	0.56
SC (damaged arrays)	710	656	612	492	788	-	0.53
Inclusive	620	629	631	591	660	605	-

For every pair of analyses: Presented in the upper right corner is the Spearman's rank correlation comparing for all genes the two sets of log-odds of being differentially expressed. In the bottom left is given the number of genes common to the top 1,000 returned by the two methods.

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