Comment on “ Response to PNAS paper by Kerby Shedden and Stephen Cooper ”
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Before any detailed comments, a few general points should be noted. Although I am not a professional statistician, I have learned enough about statistics to understand that there may be many ways of looking at the same problem, and different approaches to various issues of statistical analysis. This means that reasonable and alternative approaches may be in opposition and come to different conclusions. It is one of the purposes of the Comments presented here to highlight where these differences arise, and so perhaps guide future studies of the cell cycle and microarray analyses.
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