Table 2

ANOVA model effects across labs

Bone Marrow

Quality difference

Sample size

Lab 1

-0.046*

35

Lab 2

0.168*

112

Lab 3

0.175*

20

Lab 4

0.064*

27

Lab 5

-0.111*

14

Lab 6

-0.053*

12

Lab 7

0.044*

43

Lab 8

-0.145*

19

F-statistic p-value

<.001

Brain

Quality difference

Sample size

Lab 1

-0.054*

201

Lab 2

0.016

24

Lab 3

0.029*

31

Lab 4

0.229*

42

Lab 5

-0.053*

199

Lab 6

-0.042*

82

F-statistic p-value

<.001

ANOVA model effects for GNUSE median across labs, for two tissue types - bone marrow and brain. There is a statistically significant difference in quality between labs in both tissue types (F-test p-values < 0.001). A * denotes a statistically significant lab effect.

McCall et al. BMC Bioinformatics 2011 12:137   doi:10.1186/1471-2105-12-137