Table 6

Simulation results

Number of remeasured datasets

Number of repeated measurements

Correlation | - ρ^true|

Correlation |ρ^r - ρ^true|

Distance | - d^true|

Distance |d^r - d^true|

100

4

0.01383

0.01454

0.00379

0.00476

100

10

0.01044

0.01440

0.00364

0.00472

10

20

0.05298

0.08162

0.02029

0.02653

10

100

0.04591

0.08147

0.01997

0.02660

The average deviation of the variability-weighted similarity from the true similarity (| - ρ^true| and | - d^true|), and the average deviation of the true similarity from the similarity measures computed with no repeated measurements (|ρ^r - ρ^true| and |d^r - d^true|).

Yeung et al. Genome Biology 2003 4:R34   doi:10.1186/gb-2003-4-5-r34