Sunday, March 12, 2017

Correlations In Random Genomic Data: A Simple Biology Pitfall

Wow it has been a long time since we have had a post on here! As always, that means other projects are in the works and the blog has taken a bit of a back seat, but we are back and ready to talk science. This week I wanted to get to a topic I have been meaning to get to for a while. If you are a frequent reader, you know that every now and then I like to go over some basic statistics topics that cause confusion among biologists, as well as scientists in other fields. This week I want to cover a common statistical pitfall, with the hopes that it will prevent readers from making simple mistakes. The topic for this post will be obtaining statistically significant correlations from random gene expression data.