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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 May 7.
Published in final edited form as: J Proteome Res. 2010 May 7;9(5):2488–2495. doi: 10.1021/pr901163d

Figure 5. Decoy p-values follow a uniform distribution.

Figure 5

The figure plots the calculated p-value as a function of the rank p-value for all candidates and all spectra in the data set. The rank p-value of a score x is defined as the fraction of scores that are greater than or equal to x. The distribution of p-values is compared against y = x (solid line), y = 2x and y = x/2 (dotted lines).