Figure 4.

Each point represents the log2 (R/G) value for the specified genes on a particular array. The biweight correlation is close to zero, and the Pearson correlation gives a high absolute correlation. Group 4 pairs are the most worrisome; it would be a mistake to think that two genes were highly correlated when that high correlation is simply due to one outlying point.

Hardin et al. BMC Bioinformatics 2007 8:220   doi:10.1186/1471-2105-8-220
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