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Pairwise covariation of 3:1 dinucleotide frequencies was assessed by the Spearman rank correlation coefficient [ 45], a nonparametric rank statistic for testing monotonic relationships.
However, because of the close relation between the mixture approach and the other two recently proposed nonparametric approaches - the empirical Bayes method [ 5] and the statistical analysis of microarray (SAM) method [ 9] - our proposed method can be also applied to provide some useful guideline for designing microarray experiments even when one of the latter two approaches (or other approaches) is planned to be used for data analysis in a later stage.
Our proposal here also shows an attractive feature of the mixture model approach, as compared to the other two nonparametric approaches [ 5, 9], because it is still unclear how the sample size/power calculation can be done in the other two approaches.
Thus, for exploratory research being done to generate lists of mRNAs that warrant further study, use of both parametric and nonparametric tests is one way to significantly expand the list.
Multipoint nonparametric linkage analysis was performed using GENEHUNTER PLUS [ S4].