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. 2018 Aug 8;13(8):e0201813. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0201813

Table 1. Summary of normalization methods and software packages used.

Normalization method Description of normalization Distribution Statistical test Software packages
UQ-pgQ2 Per sample scaled by upper quantile and per gene by medium across samples NB Wald test DESeq2 (v1.6.3)
DESeq Per sample scaled by medium of ratio NB Wald test DESeq2 (v1.6.3)
TMM Per sample by Trimmed Mean M values NB Exact test edgeR (v3.8.6)

NB: a negative binomial distribution.