Table 1

Number of Genes with Significant Differences between Tumor and Normal Class in Various Cancer Types under the PPST and ABA tests and the parametric t-test (for comparison)
	α = 0.1		α = 0.05

Data Set	PPST	ABA test (ABA/BAB)	PPST	ABA test (ABA/BAB)	parametric t_{α = 0.05}**

breast⁷	572	40/5	326	28/49	313
melanoma¹⁵	662	60/202	312	38/133	347
colon⁴⁵	1788	55/153	1558	46/55	1378
ovarian¹⁶	3344	253/63	2060	189/22	1813
lymphoma¹⁸	2077	286/42	1114	194/30	1370
lung¹⁹	614	40/3	506	35/3	389

A = tumor sample group, B = normal sample group *pooled variance t
Lyons-Weiler et al. BMC Bioinformatics 2004 5:110 doi:10.1186/1471-2105-5-110