What Does Limma Mean?

1 in ancient Greek music : a semitone in the Pythagorean scale that is less than half a whole step and is designated as the difference between a perfect fourth and two whole steps or 256/243. — called also diesis.

What is Limma R package?

Description. LIMMA is a library for the analysis of gene expression microarray data, especially the use of linear models for analysing designed experiments and the assessment of differential expression.

What statistical test does Limma use?

LIMMA uses an Empirical Bayes method which estimates the prior from the set of all feature(since we have 2000 of them - one for each gene). LIMMA uses this Empirical Bayes method to moderate the sample variances, which are mean squared deviations (and so are a type of sample mean).