Variance-stabilizing transformations for two-color microarrays
Author(s) -
Blythe Durbin,
David M. Rocke
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
bioinformatics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.599
H-Index - 390
eISSN - 1367-4811
pISSN - 1367-4803
DOI - 10.1093/bioinformatics/btg464
Subject(s) - variance (accounting) , transformation (genetics) , constant (computer programming) , analysis of variance , mathematics , computer science , differential (mechanical device) , control (management) , statistics , algorithm , artificial intelligence , biology , gene , business , programming language , engineering , aerospace engineering , biochemistry , accounting
Authors of several recent papers have independently introduced a family of transformations (the generalized-log family), which stabilizes the variance of microarray data up to the first order. However, for data from two-color arrays, tests for differential expression may require that the variance of the difference of transformed observations be constant, rather than that of the transformed observations themselves.
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