Sample A: Cover Page of Thesis, Project, or Dissertation Proposal

Figure 3.1: P value distributions. P value density distributions and quantiles for the Bhattacharjee data as
calculated by the Welch’s t–test for each of the probe cleansing methodologies, on comparison to normally
distributed random sampling. The top left graph presents the Gaussian kernel estimation for the entire p
value distribution, with the corresponding quantiles presented on the top right. The bottom demonstrates
kernel density distributions and quantiles for the null p values (greater than 0.05).
Models and Class Predictions
Figure 3.2 shows the sample class predictions when the training set values came from the
Stearman experiment. The input ProbeSet lists are labeled according to the description of their
generation, and include four categories. The test set was the Bhattacharjee experiment (just doing
two sample classes), for each of the three classification algorithms: kNN, Random Forest, and
LDA. The last column summarizes each selection level of the data, across the three classification
algorithms. For the top row of graphs in Figure 3.2, the number of input ProbeSets in each of the
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