Two-group comparisons of zero-inflated intensity values: the choice of test statistic matters
Author(s) -
Andreas Gleiß,
Mohammed Dakna,
Harald Mischak,
Georg Heinze
Publication year - 2015
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/btv154
Subject(s) - statistic , statistics , zero (linguistics) , test statistic , intensity (physics) , group (periodic table) , test (biology) , mathematics , econometrics , computer science , statistical hypothesis testing , physics , biology , optics , philosophy , linguistics , paleontology , quantum mechanics
A special characteristic of data from molecular biology is the frequent occurrence of zero intensity values which can arise either by true absence of a compound or by a signal that is below a technical limit of detection.
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