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Table 3 Arabidopsis thaliana data [7]: Method comparison for estimating the Δ Δ C q -value

From: Unaccounted uncertainty from qPCR efficiency estimates entails uncontrolled false positive rates

 

Estimate

se

t-value

df

p-value

LCL

UCL

MT7 vs Tublin

       

EC

-4.374

0.4319

-10.13

4

5.353·10−4

-5.573

-3.174

EC&VA1

-4.374

3.788

-1.155

4

3.126·10−1

-14.89

6.144

MT7 vs UBQ

       

EC

-3.381

0.137

-24.67

4

1.601·10−5

-3.761

-3

EC&VA1

-3.381

1.351

-2.503

4

6.658·10−2

-7.132

0.3699

  1. EC efficiency corrected LMM estimate ignoring the uncertainty of the efficiency estimates. EC&VA1 EC and variance adjusted LMM estimate using the delta method. The last two columns show the 952000 lower and upper confidence interval limits