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In mathematics the signal-to-noise statistic distance between two vectors a and b with mean values μ a {\displaystyle \mu _{a}} and μ b {\displaystyle \mu _{b}} and standard deviation σ a {\displaystyle \sigma _{a}} and σ b {\displaystyle \sigma _{b}} respectively is:

D s n = ( μ a − μ b ) ( σ a + σ b ) {\displaystyle D_{sn}={(\mu _{a}-\mu _{b}) \over (\sigma _{a}+\sigma _{b})}}

In the case of Gaussian-distributed data and unbiased class distributions, this statistic can be related to classification accuracy given an ideal linear discrimination, and a decision boundary can be derived.

This distance is frequently used to identify vectors that have significant difference. One usage is in bioinformatics to locate genes that are differential expressed on microarray experiments.

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  3. Slonim D.K. et al. (2000) Class Prediction and Discovery Using Gene Expression Data. Procs. of the Fourth Annual International Conference on Computational Molecular Biology Tokyo, Japan April 8 - 11, p263-272
  4. Pomeroy, S.L. et al. (2002) Gene Expression-Based Classification and Outcome Prediction of Central Nervous System Embryonal Tumors. Nature 415, 436–442.


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