by Biostatsquid | Jun 24, 2025 | Statistics
Setting thresholds for differential gene expression (DGE) analysis is crucial and depends on several factors. In essence, for a list of genes, we are trying to define what counts as biologically meaningful versus just statistically significant. The question is…...
by Biostatsquid | Jun 6, 2025 | Learning, Statistics, Statistics in R, Tutorials
When working with biological data, we often want to compare measurements across multiple groups. However, these measurements aren’t always normally distributed. In such cases, non-parametric methods like the Kruskal-Wallis test and Dunn’s post-hoc test are ideal...
by Biostatsquid | Apr 24, 2025 | scRNAseq, Statistics
SCTransform (Single-Cell Transform) is a normalization method primarily used in scRNA-seq data analysis. It was developed to address limitations in standard normalization approaches when dealing with single-cell data. You can check how to apply SCTransform on your...
by Biostatsquid | Apr 23, 2025 | Learning, Statistics
That’s a really good and very common question in differential gene expression analysis! It feels intuitive that the larger the difference in expression (log fold change, or logFC), the more significant it should be (i.e., the smaller the p-value), but that’s not...
by Biostatsquid | Mar 18, 2025 | Learning, scRNAseq, Statistics
Understanding similarities and differences between dimensionality reduction algorithms: PCA, t-SNE and UMAP PCA, t-SNE, UMAP… you’ve probably heard about all these dimensionality reduction methods. In this series of blogposts, we’ll cover the...
by Biostatsquid | Mar 14, 2025 | Learning, scRNAseq, Statistics
A short but simple explanation of UMAP- easily explained with an example! PCA, t-SNE, UMAP… you’ve probably heard about all these dimensionality reduction methods. In this series of blogposts, we’ll cover the similarities and differences between...
