Rank Product analysis

Rank products: a simple, yet powerful, new method to detect differentially regulated genes in replicated microarray experiments

Rainer Breitling, Patrick Armengauda, Anna Amtmanna, Pawel Herzykb

Overview

RAnk Product is a non parametric statistical method of analysing microarray data. It assumes that under the null hypothesis, the order of all items is random, and the probability of findng a specific item among the top r of n items in a alist is p = r/n.

See also

• Publication
• rankProd BioC package