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Figure 17 | Genome Biology

Figure 17

From: Exploratory differential gene expression analysis in microarray experiments with no or limited replication

Figure 17

Five ordinary STIs for the (a) real and (b) simulated mac1 datasets. The line of equivalence (black) has slope 1 and intercept 0 which corresponds to the case of Cy5 = Cy3. (c,d) Scatter plots of residuals for the real mac1 dataset versus predictor variable. On this figure (c,d) and other figures 'residuals' mean 'log2(Cy5/Cy3)'. The residuals are depicted in (c) and this is the same as (a) except that the linear trend has been subtracted resulting in a slope A = 0. The ordinary STIs assume residual homoscedasticity. (d) STIs shown corrected with the S-plus scatter plot smoother supsmu to reveal the dependence of residual variance on the value of the predictor variable. The supsmu-based STIs assume residual heteroscedasticity. Pink and cyan points lie in the interval between the upper and lower 95% and 99% STIs, respectively. Red and blue points lie above the upper and lower 99% STI, respectively. Black points lie below the upper and lower 95% STI. In all panels, the 95% (innermost), 99%, 99.8%, 99.98% and 99.998% (outermost) STIs are shown (covered with probability at least 0.9999). The vertical dotted line marks the location of the minima of the empirical hyperbolas. Therefore, red/pink, blue/cyan and black points represent up-regulated, down-regulated and unchanged genes, respectively.

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