Table 5.

Rank of interest genes: control versus dtri10

		SAM		MSAM1		MSAM2
Gene	${\overline{x}}_i-{\overline{y}}_i$	${\tilde{d}}_i$	rank	${\tilde{d}}_i$	rank	${\tilde{d}}_i$	rank
fg03539_at	−6.66	−22.18	1	−17.27	1	−10.46	2
fg03534_s_at	−4.00	−11.24	4	−8.42	4	−5.68	4
fgd159-560_at	−2.76	−9.74	5	−8.01	5	−5.22	6
fgd159-600_at	−3.28	−8.77	8	−6.81	8	−4.92	7
fgd159-520_at	−4.17	−8.12	9	−6.31	10	−4.65	8
fgd457-670_at	−3.35	−6.44	16	−5.05	18	−3.83	12
fgd4-170_at	−3.53	−5.73	21	−4.76	19	−3.68	13
fgd159-550_at	−3.22	−4.89	26	−4.23	22	−3.42	16
fg03540_s_at	−2.35	−4.84	27	−3.88	27	−2.90	23
fgd321-60_at	−1.62	−3.07	60	−2.44	64	−1.88	38
fgd159-500_at	−1.73	−2.88	78	−2.37	73	−1.90	37
Rank sum			255		251		166

Note: the best performance in terms of rank sum is shown in bold type