Table 1

Effect of deliberate regional bias distortions on MAS5 estimates


Region
.05
.10
.25
.50

Factor





1.4
RMA
<.001
.011
.019
.029

MAS5
.019
.031
.047
.063

R
.426
.549
.69
.74
2.0
RMA
.001
.003
.039
.35

MAS5
.034
.057
.100
.155

R
.647
.764
.864
.89

Entries for RMA and MAS5 in the table are fractions of probe set abundance estimates (i.e., gene expression estimates) changed by more than 0.5 on a log2 scale as a consequence of the bias introduced. The rows labeled R report values of the local correlation, R.

Reimers and Weinstein BMC Bioinformatics 2005 6:166   doi:10.1186/1471-2105-6-166