= 0 s(l) = statistic for location l • HMM with three states D(l) = hidden state at location l D(l) = 0 if α(l) = β(l) = 0 (no expression) D(l) = 1 if α(l) ≠ 0 and β(l) = 0 (expressed, but no group difference) D(l) = 2 if β(l) ≠ 0 (group difference!) • Assume statistics conditional on state is Normal s(l)|D(l) = d ~ (µd ,σd 2) f0 : µ0 =0, σ0 2=ε f1 : µ1 =0, σ1 2 f2 : µ2 , σ2 2 • Estimate parameters using a mixture model t ~ π0 f0 + π1 f1 + π2 f2 Frazee et al. Biostatistics in review Adapted from @leekgroup