English

Noun

biweight ‎(plural biweights)

1. (mathematics) Any of various weighted means
   • 2015 November 6, “A Pilot Proteogenomic Study with Data Integration Identifies MCT1 and GLUT1 as Prognostic Markers in Lung Adenocarcinoma”, in PLOS ONE, DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0142162:

     We began by mapping peptides to all possible proteins, and we then took the weighted mean (also known as Tukey’s biweight; implemented in the R Bioconductor package “affy”) to obtain a protein intensity that is more robust than the summation of intensities [36 –38 ].

Derived terms

• Tukey's biweight