One of the prevailing ideas in the literature on microarray data analysis is to pool the expression measures across genes and treat them as a sample drawn from some distribution. Several universal laws were proposed to analytically describe this distribution. This idea raises a number of...

Stochastic dependence between gene expression levels in microarray data is of critical importance for the methods of statistical inference that resort to pooling test statistics across genes. The empirical Bayes methodology in the nonparametric and parametric formulations, as well as closely...

Modern methods of microarray data analysis are biased towards selecting those genes that display the most pronounced differential expression. The magnitude of differential expression does not necessarily indicate biological significance and other criteria are needed to supplement the information...