Table 3

Estimation of parameters from the simulation of 100 DNA-microarray slides. The mentioned deviations are the number of estimated standard-deviations that the estimated mean, respectively median, lie away from the true value of the parameter.

Parameter
Deviation (mean)
Deviation (median)

μ
0.1
0.1
σchannel
-0.3
-0.5
σpin
1.5
1.5
σ2gene
-1.6
-1.6
ρ
-1.6
-1.6
σε
-0.7
-0.6
|μ-|, μ+
-1.1
-1.0
π-, π+
1.0
0.7

Albers et al. BMC Bioinformatics 2006 7:205   doi:10.1186/1471-2105-7-205