Figure 3From: Ultra-high throughput sequencing-based small RNA discovery and discrete statistical biomarker analysis in a collection of cervical tumours and matched controlsComparison of false discovery rate estimates based on different statistical methods. False discovery rates are shown for our proposed method for identification of significant microRNAs (miRNAs) - a log-linear model on cube-rooted data - as well as three competing methods: a log-linear model on raw data, t-statistics on raw data, and t-statistics on cube-rooted data. The log-linear model on cube-rooted data results in extremely low false discovery rates (FDRs). The FDR for a given miRNA score cutoff is the average proportion of miRNAs with scores above that cutoff that are 'false positives'; see Additional File 9 for details on FDR calculation.Back to article page