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A censored beta mixture model for the estimation of the proportion of non-differentially expressed genes.

ABSTRACT:

Motivation

The proportion of non-differentially expressed genes (pi(0)) is an important quantity in microarray data analysis. Although many statistical methods have been proposed for its estimation, it is still necessary to develop more efficient methods.

Methods

Our approach for improving pi(0) estimation is to modify an existing simple method by introducing artificial censoring to P-values. In a comprehensive simulation study and the applications to experimental datasets, we compare our method with eight existing estimation methods.

Results

The simulation study confirms that our method can clearly improve the estimation performance. Compared with the existing methods, our method can generally provide a relatively accurate estimate with relatively small variance. Using experimental microarray datasets, we also demonstrate that our method can generally provide satisfactory estimates in practice.

Availability

The R code is freely available at http://home.gwu.edu/~ylai/research/CBpi0/.

SUBMITTER: Markitsis A

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2828110 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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A censored beta mixture model for the estimation of the proportion of non-differentially expressed genes.

Markitsis Anastasios A Lai Yinglei Y

Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) 20100115 5

<h4>Motivation</h4>The proportion of non-differentially expressed genes (pi(0)) is an important quantity in microarray data analysis. Although many statistical methods have been proposed for its estimation, it is still necessary to develop more efficient methods.<h4>Methods</h4>Our approach for improving pi(0) estimation is to modify an existing simple method by introducing artificial censoring to P-values. In a comprehensive simulation study and the applications to experimental datasets, we com ...[more]

PMID: 20080506

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A censored beta mixture model for the estimation of the proportion of non-differentially expressed genes.

Motivation

Methods

Results

Availability

Publications

A censored beta mixture model for the estimation of the proportion of non-differentially expressed genes.

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