Skip to main content
. 2017 Feb 2;18:84. doi: 10.1186/s12859-017-1501-7

Table 2.

Summary statistics for Spearman correlation coefficients between non-targeted and targeted assays

Spearman correlation estimate summary statistics: mean (min, max)
Maternal fasting Maternal 1-hour Newborn cord serum
Not normalized .33 (.09, .75) .33 (.09, .62) .41 (.19, .87)
Mean centering .49 (.24, .89) .51 (.26, .80) .59 (.35, .94)
Median scaling .49 (.25, .87) .51 (.27, .79) .59 (.34, .93)
Quantile .36 (.13, .79) .37 (.15, .64) .45 (.20, .93)
Quantile + ComBat .46 (.16, .87) .46 (.18, .80) .51 (.24, .95)
EigenMS .30 (−.07, .75) .33 (.08, .61) .42 (.17, .87)
VSN .38 (.08, .85) .37 (.16, .76) .47 (.16, .93)
Batch normalizer .27 (.11, .70) .24 (.10, .59) .25 (.00, .78)
mixnorm .52 (.25, .91) .54 (.28, .82) .59 (.31, .95)