Table 2

Number of MAQC data sets for which each estimator ranked in the top four.

algorithm

cross validation posterior

predictive expected loss


Wilcoxon stat. with emp. null

0

0


t stat. with emp. null

0

0


Wilcoxon stat. with locfdr

0

0


t stat. with locfdr

1

3


moderated t stat. with locfdr

3

3


moderated t stat. with limma

2

0


fold change shrinkage

0

0


Bayes factor

3

0


BIC

2

3


AICc

1

3


fold change > 1.41

0

0


fold change > 1

0

0


fold change > 2

0

0


all nulls true

0

0


all nulls false

0

0


Yanofsky and Bickel BMC Bioinformatics 2010 11:63   doi:10.1186/1471-2105-11-63

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