Fourth, we analyzed differences in the distributional shape of expressed genes between TNBC patients and TNBC-free patients.
Since the seminal work of Oaxaca and Blinder in the early 1970s, several decomposition methods, including those going beyond the mean, have been developed to decompose the difference in a distributional statistic between two groups, or its change over time.
The varying widths of CIs seen in Figure 1 are attributable mainly to the difference in distributional characteristics of the exposure variables those with narrow CIs tend to be the exposure variables with right-skewed distributions, whereas those with wide confidence bands tend to be those with more normally distributed variables.
There was no significant distributional difference in the education level by gender; 26.1% of female and 21.8% of male participants had a university diploma.
The second, the unexplained or residual component, captures the distributional disparities that are not explainable through differences in the observed risk factor characteristics that is, the distributional differences that do not change when reweighting the distribution of one group to match the risk factors of the other group.
Differences in distributional variance were noted in the pair-wise comparison of harvested, gillnet marked, and unmarked fish (KS, two-sided: P < 0.0001).
The distributions for harvested fish and disentangled fish (separately) were then each scaled to this reference group such that differences in distributional form were distinctly displayed by the ratio of the proportion of harvested or disentangled fish at a given length interval to the proportion preharvest fish at that same length interval.
In brief, the distributional properties of our difference measures all fell within the normal range of variation.
We include comparisons of climate niche breadth in both geographic and environmental spaces, taking into account differences in available habitats between the distributional areas.
Consequently it is possible to find no significant difference in distribution by groups with the distributional ANOVA, yet find DIF (through the ANOVA of the residuals) when the underlying trait level is taken into account, and vice versa.
