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. 2008 Jan;7(1):40-4.
doi: 10.1021/pr700739d. Epub 2007 Dec 4.

Posterior error probabilities and false discovery rates: two sides of the same coin

Lukas Käll  1 , John D Storey, Michael J MacCoss, William Stafford Noble
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Posterior error probabilities and false discovery rates: two sides of the same coin

Lukas Käll et al. J Proteome Res. 2008 Jan.

Abstract

A variety of methods have been described in the literature for assigning statistical significance to peptides identified via tandem mass spectrometry. Here, we explain how two types of scores, the q-value and the posterior error probability, are related and complementary to one another.

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