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Friday, February 14, 2014

Converting Similarity Matrix into a into a pairwise p-value



We can calculate the probability that a given random pairwise similarity score X is bigger than a value x as p(X > x) using the fitted Gaussian function, we can transform a Tanimoto similarity matrix into a p-value p(X > x) as follows:


were t(xi,xj) is the tanimoto similarity matrix and h is the smoothing factor which you need to estimate. 

Hope now you all can very easily understand how you can calculate your pvalue from a large distribution.