Table 3

Summary of the overlap study of the two astrocytoma progression marker data sets. A. Internal consistency of the methods under comparison. k = Khatua et al. data set51; vdb = van den Boom et al. data set52 B. Number of significant genes that overlap between the two data sets in the significant gene list for each method. C. Comparison (% overlap) of methods in the k data set. D. Comparison (% overlap) of methods in the vdb data set

A

% overlap

k


test

t-test (p)

t-test (np)

PPST

ABA

vdb

t-test

5.307

t-test (np)

11.248

PPST

15.24

ABA

3.211

B

overlap

k

vdb

test

t-test (p)

t-test (np)

PPST

ABA

t-test

35

t-test (np)

118

PPST

187

ABA

11

C

Test 1

k

t-test (p)

t-test (np)

PPST

ABA

Test 2

t-test (p)

1

78.527

74.394

2.579

t-test (np)

1

83

4.678

PPST

1

1.28

ABA

1

Test 1

D

v

t-test (p)

t-test (np)

PPST

ABA

Test 2

t-test (p)

1

46.382

26.649

0

t-test (np)

1

56.975

5.656

PPST

1

7.268

ABA

1


Lyons-Weiler et al. BMC Bioinformatics 2004 5:110   doi:10.1186/1471-2105-5-110

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