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On simultaneous confidence intervals based on rank-estimates with application to analysis of gene expression data
Authors:Hossein Mansouri  Bo Li
Institution:1. Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, USA;2. hossein.mansouri@ttu.edu;4. Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, The Military College of South Carolina, The Citadel, Charleston, South Carolina, USA
Abstract:Abstract

Inferential methods based on ranks present robust and powerful alternative methodology for testing and estimation. In this article, two objectives are followed. First, develop a general method of simultaneous confidence intervals based on the rank estimates of the parameters of a general linear model and derive the asymptotic distribution of the pivotal quantity. Second, extend the method to high dimensional data such as gene expression data for which the usual large sample approximation does not apply. It is common in practice to use the asymptotic distribution to make inference for small samples. The empirical investigation in this article shows that for methods based on the rank-estimates, this approach does not produce a viable inference and should be avoided. A method based on the bootstrap is outlined and it is shown to provide a reliable and accurate method of constructing simultaneous confidence intervals based on rank estimates. In particular it is shown that commonly applied methods of normal or t-approximation are not satisfactory, particularly for large-scale inferences. Methods based on ranks are uniquely suitable for analysis of microarray gene expression data since they often involve large scale inferences based on small samples containing a large number of outliers and violate the assumption of normality. A real microarray data is analyzed using the rank-estimate simultaneous confidence intervals. Viability of the proposed method is assessed through a Monte Carlo simulation study under varied assumptions.
Keywords:Multiple comparisons  familywise error rate  bootstrap  microarray data  large-scale inference
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