Uniform approximation is more appropriate for Wilcoxon Rank-Sum Test in gene set analysis.

Gene set analysis is widely used to facilitate biological interpretations in the analyses of differential expression from high throughput profiling data. Wilcoxon Rank-Sum (WRS) test is one of the commonly used methods in gene set enrichment analysis. It compares the ranks of genes in a gene set aga...

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Main Authors: Zhide Fang, Ruofei Du, Xiangqin Cui
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3274536?pdf=render