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Table 3 Results obtained from the power law analysis of each of the data sets characterized in Table 2

From: The language of gene ontology: a Zipf’s law analysis

Species

Ontology

GOA

β

P-value

Hs

CC

1.73

0.63

 

MF

1.83

0.55

 

BP

2.04

0.65

Mm

CC

1.69

0.74

 

MF

1.76

0.36

 

BP

2.08

0.97

Dr

CC

1.62

0.74

 

MF

1.69

0.91

 

BP

1.88

0.11

Sc

CC

1.86

0.29

 

MF

1.88

0.78

 

BP

2.27

0.42

Rn

CC

1.68

0.24

 

MF

1.91

0.85

 

BP

2.38

0.76

  1. β is the power law exponent and P-value is a statistic used to determine how good a model the power law is of the data. If P > 0.1 we can assume that the power law does provide a good description of the data. H. sapiens (Hs), M. musculus (Mm), D. rerio (Dr), S. cerevisiae (Sc), R. norvegicus (Rn).