
590 Statistics and Data Analysis for Microarrays Using R and Bioconductor
Data point
(mean of replicates)
FIGURE 18.15: The residual-based cluster confidence approach [155, 257].
Each gene is repres ented by a mean of some individual measurements. The
confidence that a given gene b elongs to a cluster is inversely proportio nal to the
number of times the gene falls into a different cluster during the bootstr apping
process. The gene shown in red remains in the red cluster 3 out of 4 times,
which translates into a co nfidence of 0.75. Image courtesy of BioDiscovery Inc.