[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)
University Park, PA 16802-2111
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