
Chapter 13
Analysis of Va riance – ANOVA
In a nutshell, understanding any system means engineering it.
—Lynn Conway
13.1 Introduction
13.1.1 Problem definition and model assumptions
Let us consider an experiment measuring the expression level of a given gene
in a number of k co nditio ns. Each gene i is measured n
i
times for a total of
P
k
i=1
n
i
measurements as follows:
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