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ArticleStatistics in medicine2010

Interval estimation of quantile ratios applied to anti-cancer drug screening by xenograft experiments.

Cheng Cheng, Jianrong Wu

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Article in Statistics in medicine, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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2 authors.

Cheng ChengDepartment of Biostatistics, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, 262 Danny Thomas Place, Memphis, TN 38105-2794, USA. cheng.cheng@stjude.org
Jianrong Wu

Funding

Viral Vector Technology (VVTSR)P30CA021765 · NCI · ST. JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL · PI SUZANNE J. BAKER · 1985 to 2026
$166.9M
ANTINEOPLASTIC ALKYLGLYCEROLIPIDSR01CA042216 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI PIANTADOSI, CLAUDE · 1988 to 1990
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NCI NIH HHS CA21765NCI NIH HHS N01 CM042216NCI NIH HHS N01-CM-42216NCI NIH HHS P30 CA021765
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The current practice in analyzing data from anti-cancer drug screening by xenograft experiments lacks statistical consideration to account for experimental noise, and a sound inference procedure is necessary. A novel confidence bound and interval procedure for estimating quantile ratios developed in this paper fills the void. Justified by rigorous large-sample theory and a simulation study of small-sample performance, the proposed method performs well in a wide range of scenarios involving right-skewed distributions. By providing rigorous inference and much more interpretable statistics that account for experimental noise, the proposed method improves the current practice of analyzing drug activity data in xenograft experiments. The proposed method is fully nonparametric, simple to compute, performs equally well or better than known nonparametric methods, and is applicable to any statistical inference of a 'fold change' that can be formulated as a quantile ratio.

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Antineoplastic AgentsMass ScreeningXenograft Model Antitumor AssaysAlgorithmsAnimalsConfidence IntervalsMiceAntineoplastic Agents

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PMID20799257
PMCPMC3441185

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