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Table 1 Statistics of the standard deviation for the sets of triplicates of miR-205, miR-21 and snRNA U6, as well as for the snRNA U6 set devoid of outliers

From: Statistical analysis of a Bayesian classifier based on the expression of miRNAs

miRNA

Set size

σ

Fit’s p-value

σ max

s 21/2

[ 〈s 4〉−〈s 22]1/4

miR-205

37

0.25

0.60

0.61

0.26

0.25

miR-21

39

0.19

0.99

0.46

0.20

0.21

snRNA U6

39

0.19

0.10

0.48

0.26

0.30

snRNA U6

35

0.17

0.13

-

0.20

0.21

without outliers

      
  1. The population variance σ results from the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test analysis; the related p-value is reported. The threshold σ max (bold), above which a value is deemed to be an outlier, is set to 2.448·σ. The two rightmost columns provide 〈s 21/2 and [ 〈s 4〉−〈s 22]1/4 (see main text)