findReplicateGroups: Find Groups of Replicate Samples Within Dataset
Description
Function to find groups of entities within a distance matrix that are similar to some statistical threshold
Usage
findReplicateGroups(distMatrix,theta=0.05)
Arguments
distMatrix
A numeric matrix containing pair-wise distances between each sample of the datset.
theta
A numeric value specifying the quantile of the Normal distribution (approximating the distribution of pairwise distances) to be used to call samples suitable similar to be considered replicates.
Value
Details
Approximates all pair-wise distances with a Normal distribution, then find each group of samples for which all distances are less than the specified quantile of the approximated distribution.