Hi: Apologies for asking the following question. As?this may sound very basic and stupid for this forum?, I honestly do not know how to solve it and I do not have a teacher who can help me understand. ? I have list of genes (200)?that are involved in a particular process and I call this as a?ProcSet.?? From an independent experiment I found that out of 10,000 genes, 1500 are significant and I call these1500 genes as ResultSet.?? ? The intersection of ResultSet and ProcSet are 80 genes.? ? That means 40% of ProcSet are significant.? ? ?How do I calculate that 40% is significant and more than I expect by chance given ResultSet and 10,000 genes I evaluated in the experiment. ? What I have: n = 200 (ProcSet) p = 0.4 ? N = 1500? (ResultSet) ? N1 =10,000? ? Pn = 0.15 ? What kind of test will help me know that 0.4 is significant given 0.15. Any suggestions will greatly help me. ? Thank you. Srini
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