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Table 2 Summary statistics for Spearman correlation coefficients between non-targeted and targeted assays

From: Mixture model normalization for non-targeted gas chromatography/mass spectrometry metabolomics data

 

Spearman correlation estimate summary statistics: mean (min, max)

Maternal fasting

Maternal 1-hour

Newborn cord serum

Not normalized

.33 (.09, .75)

.33 (.09, .62)

.41 (.19, .87)

Mean centering

.49 (.24, .89)

.51 (.26, .80)

.59 (.35, .94)

Median scaling

.49 (.25, .87)

.51 (.27, .79)

.59 (.34, .93)

Quantile

.36 (.13, .79)

.37 (.15, .64)

.45 (.20, .93)

Quantile + ComBat

.46 (.16, .87)

.46 (.18, .80)

.51 (.24, .95)

EigenMS

.30 (−.07, .75)

.33 (.08, .61)

.42 (.17, .87)

VSN

.38 (.08, .85)

.37 (.16, .76)

.47 (.16, .93)

Batch normalizer

.27 (.11, .70)

.24 (.10, .59)

.25 (.00, .78)

mixnorm

.52 (.25, .91)

.54 (.28, .82)

.59 (.31, .95)