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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Curr Opin Biotechnol. 2018 Feb 6;54:1–9. doi: 10.1016/j.copbio.2018.01.010

Table 1.

Classical statistical tests for enrichment depends on background database and p-value cutoffs.

Parameter Fisher-exact Hypergeometric Bionomial Kolmogorov–Smirnov
Background Database Yes Yes No No
P-value cutoff Yes Yes Yes No