[BioC] Analysing expression with tiling arrays

January Weiner january.weiner at mpiib-berlin.mpg.de
Tue Sep 14 16:35:16 CEST 2010


> this sounds reasonable, just be aware that the noise in the data from
> neighbouring probes is likely correlated, so that the t-distribution with
> the 'naive' degrees of freedom will give you optimistic (too small)
> p-values. You can still use them for ranking / prioritizing genes, and
> perhaps set the cutoff from known positive and negative control genes.

Thanks for the answer, Wolfgang. I did the simple / naive t-test, and
it still gave "reasonable" results (i.e. same as with a different
approach).

Regards,

j.


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