Distributional fold change test - A statistical approach for detecting differential expression in microarray experiments

Algorithms for Molecular Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Farztdinov, Vadim ^a   McDyer, Fionnuala ^a  

^a Almac Sciences   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Differential expression; Feature selection; FFPE; Fold change; Microarray; ROC curve; Statistical test

Indexed keywords

EID: 84868228750     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17487188     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1748-7188-7-29     Document Type: Article

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