From: Cogito: automated and generic comparison of annotated genomic intervals
Scale | Example | Localization | Dispersion | Visualization |
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Binary | Mutation yes or no | Most frequent value | Both values present? | Barplot |
Nominal | Category of mutation | Most frequent value | No. of present values | Barplot |
Ordinal | Level of methylation | Median | Quantiles | Ordered barplot |
interval | Scores of ChIP-seq peaks | Arithmetic mean | Standard deviation | Boxplot |
Rational | Expression value | Geo. mean | Coefficient of variation | Boxplot |