Erratum to: Integrating mean and variance heterogeneities to identify differentially expressed genes

Erratum Open Access Erratum to: Integrating mean and variance heterogeneities to identify differentially expressed genes Weiwei Ouyang†1, Qiang An1, 2, Jinying Zhao3 and Huaizhen Qin†1Email author †Contributed equally BMC BioinformaticsBMC series – open, inclusive and trusted201718:89 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12859-017-1507-1 ©  The Author(s). 2017 Received: 30 January 2017Accepted: 30 January 2017Published: 3 February 2017 The original article was published in BMC Bioinformatics 2016 17:497 Erratum Upon publication of this article [1], an error occurred in the PDF presentation of the hat (WT) formula in ‘Concept of MDE genes and mean heterogeneity tests’ of the ‘Methods’ section on page 3. The corrected formula is shown below: $$ \widehat{WT}=\frac{{\widehat{\mu}}_{i1}\mathit{\hbox{-}}{\widehat{\mu}}_{i2}}{\sqrt{\frac{{\widehat{\sigma}}_{i1}^2}{n_1}+\frac{{\widehat{\sigma}}_{i2}^2}{n_2}}} $$ The above formula has been corrected in the original article. Notes The online version of the original article can be found under doi:10.1186/s12859-016-1393-y. Declarations Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. Authors’ Affiliations (1) Department of Global Biostatistics and Data Science, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, 1440 Canal Street, Suite 2001, New Orleans, LA 70112, USA (2) Department of Epidemiology, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, 1440 Canal Street, New Orleans, LA 70112, USA (3) Department of Epidemiology, College of Public Health and Health Professions and College of Medicine, University of Florida, 2004 Mowry Rd, Gainesville, FL 32610, USA Reference Ouyang W, et al. Integrating mean and variance heterogeneities to identify differentially expressed genes. BMC Bioinformatics. 2016;17:497. doi:10.1186/s12859-016-1393-y.View ArticlePubMedPubMed CentralGoogle Scholar Copyright © The Author(s). 2017 (...truncated)