Figure 4. Impact of experimental designs on normalization using simulated data.

QQ-plot of root mean of squared error (RMSE) comparing four experimental designs: Full (two references + replicates), SingleRef (one reference + replicates), NoRep (two references, no replicates), and SingleRef+NoRep (single-reference design without replicates). Full design (x-axis) is used as the benchmark. (A) Block effects are absent. (B) Block effects are present.