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Table 3 Extant scale normalization techniques used in this study. For a given microarray, if M l is a location-normalized log ratio, then M s is the scale-normalized log ratio, where M s = M l / s, and s is median absolute deviation from the median (MAD), a robust estimate of the scale of the data distribution. The remaining abbreviations are as follows, median(M l ): median value of M l values of spots on all microarrays in a data set; : median value of M l values of spots in PT group i on a microarray.

From: Evaluation of normalization methods for cDNA microarray data by k-NN classification

Name *

Description

Bioconductor R package/function (parameters)

W SCALE

Within-microarray scale normalization

M s = M l / s i

marrayNorm/maNormScale (norm="printTipMAD", subset = T, geo = T, Mscale = T)

B SCALE

Between-microarray scale normalization

s = median(M l - median(M l ))

M s = M l / s

marrayNorm/maNormScale (norm="globalMAD", subset = T), geo = T, Mscale = T)

WB SCALE

Step 1: Within-microarray scale normalization

marrayNorm/maNormScale (norm="printTipMAD", subset = T, geo = T, Mscale = T)

 

Step 2: Between-microarray scale normalization

s = median(M l - median(M l ))

marrayNorm/maNormScale (norm="globalMAD", subset = T, geo = T, Mscale = T)

  1. * We adopted the terminology given in this table to avoid confusion within this work. Elsewhere, the methods are known as: W SCALE, within-print-tip-group scale normalization [4]; and B SCALE, between slide scale normalization [4, 15].