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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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Fang, Zhide, Du, Ruofei, Cui, Xiangqin
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science 2012
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3274536/