Table 3

Student's t-test results for the spiking experiment

Normalization Method

PHS2

ALB

CAH

ITRA


scenario 1

Z

3

1

25

2

Total Signal

2

18

187

30

scenario 2

Z

10

1

2

3

Total Signal

1

2

4

3

scenario 3

Z

111

2

1

5

Total Signal

5

2

1

4


PHS2, ALB, CAH, and ITRA stand for the spiked protein markers, and the numbers in the respective columns indicate ranking according to Student's t-test applied to the sparse matrix normalized by Z or Total Signal normalization.

Carvalho et al. BMC Bioinformatics 2008 9:316   doi:10.1186/1471-2105-9-316

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