AAPL: Assessing Association between P-value Lists.

ABSTRACT: Joint analyses of high-throughput datasets generate the need to assess the association between two long lists of p-values. In such p-value lists, the vast majority of the features are insignificant. Ideally contributions of features that are null in both tests should be minimized. However, by random chance their p-values are uniformly distributed between zero and one, and weak correlations of the p-values may exist due to inherent biases in the high-throughput technology used to generate the multiple datasets. Rank-based agreement test may capture such unwanted effects. Testing contingency tables generated using hard cutoffs may be sensitive to arbitrary threshold choice. We develop a novel method based on feature-level concordance using local false discovery rate. The association score en

SUBMITTER: Yu T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3634673 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature