Table 4. Number of differentially methylated genes by different statistical tests for Dataset 3, where #G hyper and #G hypo refer to hyper and hypo-methylated genes, respectively.
parametric tests at 0.05 p-value cutoff | non-parametric tests at 0.05 p-value cutoff | |||||||||
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t-test | Welch’s t-test | Bayes t-test | Pearson’s correlation | common | Limma | SAM | Wilcoxon | permute | common | |
#G hyper | 652 | 652 | 507 | 87 | 74 | 185 | 185 | 181 | 186 | 181 |
#G hypo | 676 | 676 | 600 | 129 | 118 | 165 | 165 | 163 | 166 | 163 |