Research Article

Robust Significance Analysis of Microarrays by Minimum β-Divergence Method

Table 3

Performance evaluation of different methods using AUC, pAUC, and FDR values for both small- and large-sample cases.

Performance measuresANOVAKWSAMLIMMAProposed

For small-sample case

AUC0.7640.1960.8320.8340.832
(0.279)(0.102)(0.192)(0.279)(0.839)
[0.084][0.009][0.177][0.097][0.839]

pAUC0.1520.0380.1660.1660.166
(0.055)(0.019)(0.038)(0.055)(0.167)
[0.016][0.019][0.035][0.019][0.167]

FDR0.2350.8020.1670.1650.167
(0.720)(0.897)(0.807)(0.720)(0.160)
[0.915][0.900][0.822][0.902][0.160]

For large-sample case

AUC0.9570.9570.9570.9570.957
(0.446)(0.864)(0.594)(0.446)(0.937)
[0.227][0.857][0.487][0.227][0.947]

pAUC0.1910.1910.1910.1910.191
(0.088)(0.172)(0.118)(0.088)(0.187)
[0.045][0.171][0.097][0.045][0.188]

FDR0.0420.0420.0450.0420.042
(0.552)(0.135)(0.405)(0.552)(0.062)
[0.772][0.145][0.512][0.772][0.057]

In this table the values within the brackets (⋅), , and [⋅] represent the summary statistics estimated by different methods (ANOVA, KW, SAM, LIMMA, and proposed) in presence of one or two outliers in each of 10%, 20%, and 50% genes, respectively.