Skip to main content

Table 1 Number of identified significantly differentially expressed metabolites at a true FDR level of 0.05

From: Kernel approaches for differential expression analysis of mass spectrometry-based metabolomics data

Low group effect

25% diff

50% diff

Method/miss(%)

20%

40%

20%

40%

Kernd

259

247

517

500

Kerns

259

247

517

500

Qual

*

*

*

*

Quant

244

*

511

487

T

255

241

515

496

Wilcox

254

245

517

496

High group effect

25% diff

50% diff

Method/miss(%)

20%

40%

20%

40%

Kernd

260

248

523

511

Kerns

260

248

523

511

Qual

*

*

*

*

Quant

263

*

525

525

T

260

249

523

510

Wilcox

259

247

523

509

  1. The symbol * in the table means that the method can not obtain a true FDR of 0.05 no matter what rejection region [0,c] is used.