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In effect, bootstrapping eliminated the disparity between HRM and RPM in terms of variance, with bootstrapped versions of those estimators having similar low levels of variance.
In these cases, the variance in the final epidemic size will be much greater than the average final epidemic size itself.
The application of permutation-validated PCA to microarray data shows that the basic sources of variance could be extracted from all datasets: The components computed from the Spellman et al . [ 23] yeast data described the cell cycle and allowed ordinations of the hybridizations according to their temporal situation in the cell cycle.
For each competition experiment I conducted one or more of the following statistical tests using SPSS version 8.0 (SPSS, Inc., Chicago, IL): 1) a nested ANOVA on the fitness data in the novel environment designed to identify significant population- and clone-level variance (population and clone are random factors); 2) a mixed-model nested ANOVA designed to identify the effect of environment (fixed factor) on population and clone-level variance (both random factors); and 3) a paired t-test to differentiate fitness in each experimental environment relative to control.
In a statistical analysis of toxicity data, the choice of a particular analysis and the ability to detect departures from the assumptions of the analysis, such as the normal distribution of the data and homogeneity of variance, is also dependent on the number of replicates.