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Pearson vs. Spearman correlation

Correlation measures are commonly used to show how correlated two sets of datasets are. A commonly used measure is the Pearson correlation. To illustrate when not to use a Pearson correlation: If we remove the 2,000 value: Use a non-parametric … Continue reading

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DESeq vs. edgeR vs. baySeq

6th April 2012: For a more updated version of this post, please refer see this post. A very simple comparison Using the TagSeqExample.tab file from the DESeq package as the benchmark dataset. According to DESeq authors, T1a and T1b are … Continue reading

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Calculating Pearson correlation using Perl

My modification of code which is originally available here. Probably easier to understand the original code. I altered the code so that I could use an anonymous 2d array and with strictures, so that I could plug it into my … Continue reading

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