A comparison of normalization techniques for microRNA microarray data

Statistical Applications in Genetics and Molecular Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Rao, Youlan ^a   Lee, Yoonkyung ^a   Jarjoura, David ^a   Ruppert, Amy S ^a   Liu, Chang Gong ^a   Hsu, Jason C ^a   Hagan, John P ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cyclic loess normalization; Mean squared error; Median normalization; microRNA; Quantile normalization; Robust estimates; Smoothing spline

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA; RNA;

ARTICLE; BRAIN TISSUE; HUMAN; HYBRIDIZATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MEASUREMENT ERROR; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA MICROARRAY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; EVALUATION; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; MOUSE; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); HUMANS; MICE; MICRORNAS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESEARCH DESIGN; RNA, NEOPLASM;

EID: 48749130945     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15446115     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1544-6115.1287     Document Type: Article

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