Non-ignorable fuzziness in granular counts: the case of RNA-seq data

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Main Authors: Calcagnì, Antonio, Consiglio, Arianna, Grzegorzewski, Przemyslaw, Mencar, Corrado
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Published: 2026
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author Calcagnì, Antonio
Consiglio, Arianna
Grzegorzewski, Przemyslaw
Mencar, Corrado
author_facet Calcagnì, Antonio
Consiglio, Arianna
Grzegorzewski, Przemyslaw
Mencar, Corrado
contents RNA-seq count data are often affected by read-to-gene alignment ambiguity, especially in high-dimensional transcriptomics. This type of ambiguity can be conveniently expressed through granular counts, namely fuzzy-valued observations of latent discrete quantities. We study a class of fuzzy-reporting mechanisms and show that, when reporting exploits graded membership, ignorability fails generically, leading to a coarsening-not-at-random structure. A hierarchical model is then introduced as a tractable instance of this construction and illustrated using RNA-seq data.
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spellingShingle Non-ignorable fuzziness in granular counts: the case of RNA-seq data
Calcagnì, Antonio
Consiglio, Arianna
Grzegorzewski, Przemyslaw
Mencar, Corrado
Methodology
Genomics
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62A86, 62F15, 62P10
RNA-seq count data are often affected by read-to-gene alignment ambiguity, especially in high-dimensional transcriptomics. This type of ambiguity can be conveniently expressed through granular counts, namely fuzzy-valued observations of latent discrete quantities. We study a class of fuzzy-reporting mechanisms and show that, when reporting exploits graded membership, ignorability fails generically, leading to a coarsening-not-at-random structure. A hierarchical model is then introduced as a tractable instance of this construction and illustrated using RNA-seq data.
title Non-ignorable fuzziness in granular counts: the case of RNA-seq data
topic Methodology
Genomics
Applications
62A86, 62F15, 62P10
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.00763