[BioC] Odds Ratio in GOstat

[Naomi Altman]

One thing I noticed is that the "universe" sent by the investigator 
does not include all the genes in the test set.  However, using the 
union of the 2 sets as the universe does not fix the problem.

--Naomi

At 03:02 PM 12/11/2006, Seth Falcon wrote:
>Hi Naomi,
>
>Naomi Altman <naomi at stat.psu.edu> writes:
> > I am getting some rather odd "OddsRatio" numbers in my GOstat
> > tables.  In particular, I seem to be getting "Inf" whenever
> > "Observed"="Size".  This does not seem to be right, unless "Size" is
> > the number of hits in the union of the test and nontest set.  But if
> > that is the case, then "Size" should always be greater than or equal
> > to "Observed" and that is not the case.
>
>Hmm, I will certainly look into this.  Can you provide some
>sessionInfo() information?
>
>The "Size" column is the number of genes annotated at the given GO
>term (where genes are restricted to the defined gene universe).  You
>are right that Size should always be greater or equal to the observed
>count.  Jim found a bug relating to this which I fixed.  If you don't
>already have Category 2.0.3 and GOstats 2.0.4, could you try upgrading
>(via biocLite) and let me know if you still see the problem?
>
>+ seth
>
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