biweight

noun

biweight

noun

Etymology From bi- + weight.

1

Mathematics, Sciences Any of various weighted means

  • We began by mapping peptides to all possible proteins, and we then took the weighted mean (also known as Tukey’s biweight; implemented in the R Bioconductor package “affy”) to obtain a protein intensity that is more robust than the summation of intensities [36 –38 ].2015 November 6, “A Pilot Proteogenomic Study with Data Integration Identifies MCT1 and GLUT1 as Prognostic Markers in Lung Adenocarcinoma”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
Derived terms
Tukey's biweight

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