Research Article

Robust Significance Analysis of Microarrays by Minimum β-Divergence Method

Table 5

Performance evaluation of different methods based on Spike gene expression dataset for randomly chosen subsamples of size 3 from each condition.

MethodsTPRTNRFPRFNRFDRAUC

In absence of outliers

ANOVA0.7870.9750.0240.2130.2130.784
KW0.7880.9750.0240.2110.2190.781
SAM0.8210.9790.0200.1780.1750.820
LIMMA0.8160.9780.0210.1830.1860.814
EB0.6440.9580.0410.3560.3560.642
GAGA0.5980.9530.0460.4010.4070.595
BRIDGE0.6440.9580.0410.3550.3550.642
Proposed0.8210.9780.0210.1850.1750.820

In presence of one outlier in 20% of 1944 DE genes

ANOVA0.6300.9570.0430.3700.3700.622
KW0.6200.9550.0440.3800.3800.611
SAM0.7300.9680.0310.2700.2700.726
LIMMA0.7200.9670.0320.2840.2840.712
EB0.1140.8970.1020.8850.8850.111
GAGA0.6080.9540.0450.3920.3920.605
BRIDGE0.6680.9610.0380.3310.3310.665
Proposed0.8060.9770.0220.1930.1930.805

In this table the summary statistics (TPR, TNR, FPR, FNR, FDR, and AUC) were estimated by different methods (ANOVA, KW, SAM, LIMMA, EB, GAGA, BRIDGE, and proposed) based on valid 1944 DE genes in both absence and presence of one outlier in 20% of valid 1944 DE genes.