[BioC] P>1 (edgeR and sage.test)

Naomi Altman naomi at stat.psu.edu
Wed Jun 30 22:53:40 CEST 2010


Both the Fisher exact test and sage.test (in sagenhaft) can produce 
p-values slightly bigger than 1.  This can mess up down-stream 
analyses (like using qvalue, e.g.). Perhaps the functions could be 
modified to truncate the p-values at 1.0.

Thanks,

Naomi S. Altman                                814-865-3791 (voice)
Associate Professor
Dept. of Statistics                              814-863-7114 (fax)
Penn State University                         814-865-1348 (Statistics)
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