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The problem arises in the small-sample setting, where the approximately valid Welch test lacks sensitivity, while the more sensitive moderated t-test assumes equal variance.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Methods: We introduce a moderated Welch test (MWT) that allows unequal variance between groups. It is based on (i) weighting of pooled and unpooled standard errors and (ii) improved estimation of the gene-level variance that exploits the information from across the genes.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Results: When a non-trivial proportion of genes has unequal variability, false discovery rate (FDR) estimates based on the standard t and moderated t-tests are often too optimistic, while the standard Welch test has low sensitivity. The MWT is shown to (i) perform better than the standard t, the standard Welch and the moderated t-tests when the variances are unequal between groups and (ii) perform similarly to the moderated t, and better than the standard t and Welch tests when the group variances are equal. These results mean that MWT is more reliable than other existing tests over wider range of data conditions.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Availability: R package to perform MWT is available at http:\/\/www.meb.ki.se\/~yudpaw<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Contact: \u00a0yudi.pawitan@ki.se<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Supplementary information: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1093\/bioinformatics\/btn100","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2008,3,16]],"date-time":"2008-03-16T00:12:48Z","timestamp":1205626368000},"page":"1168-1174","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":24,"title":["Unequal group variances in microarray data analyses"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"24","author":[{"given":"Meaza","family":"Demissie","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"1 Department of Statistics, University of \u00d6rebro, Sweden, 2Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden and 3Department of Biomedical Sciences and Biotechnology, University of Brescia, Italy"}]},{"given":"Barbara","family":"Mascialino","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"1 Department of Statistics, University of \u00d6rebro, Sweden, 2Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden and 3Department of Biomedical Sciences and Biotechnology, University of Brescia, Italy"}]},{"given":"Stefano","family":"Calza","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"1 Department of Statistics, University of \u00d6rebro, Sweden, 2Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden and 3Department of Biomedical Sciences and Biotechnology, University of Brescia, Italy"}]},{"given":"Yudi","family":"Pawitan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"1 Department of Statistics, University of \u00d6rebro, Sweden, 2Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden and 3Department of Biomedical Sciences and Biotechnology, University of Brescia, Italy"}]}],"member":"286","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2008,3,14]]},"reference":[{"key":"2023020210060305000_B1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"509","DOI":"10.1093\/bioinformatics\/17.6.509","article-title":"A Bayesian framework for the analysis of microarray expression data: regularized t-test and statistical inference of gene changes","volume":"17","author":"Baldi","year":"2001","journal-title":"Bioinformatics"},{"key":"2023020210060305000_B2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"R16","DOI":"10.1186\/gb-2005-6-2-r16","article-title":"Preferred analysis methods for Affymetrix GeneChips revealed by a wholly defined control dataset","volume":"6","author":"Choe","year":"2005","journal-title":"Genome Biol"},{"key":"2023020210060305000_B3","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1151","DOI":"10.1198\/016214501753382129","article-title":"Empirical Bayes analysis of a microarray experiment","volume":"96","author":"Efron","year":"2001","journal-title":"J. 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