Table 5

False postives and true positives in top 500, when the proportion unchanged equals 10% and the number of genes equals 10000.

Method
False positive
True positive

lognormal

samroc
115
385
t-test
161
339
Wilcoxon
197
303
Fold Change
411
89
MG
48
452
Bayes
128
372
SAM
143
357

normal

samroc
156
344
t-test
166
334
Wilcoxon
197
303
Fold Change
325
175
MG
411
89
Bayes
253
247
SAM
161
339

Broberg Genome Biology 2002 3:preprint0007.1   doi:10.1186/gb-2002-3-9-preprint0007