promise.pattern:
PROMISE pattern
Description
PROMISE pattern is a data frame of association pattern definition, consisting of three columns.
Format
PROMISE pattern: The column names must be stat.coef, stat.func, and endpt.vars. stat.coef column gives the coefficients for combining the statistics of association of genomic variable with individual endpoint variable into the ultimate PROMISE statistic. stat.func column gives the name of the R routine that computes the test statistic of association of the endpoint variables.
Two R routines (jung.rstat and spearman.rstat)are provided in current release. Users can provide their own routine accordingly. endpt.vars column gives the name(s) of variable(s) in the endpoint data frame needed to compute each term of
the PROMISE statistic. If more than one variables involve in one term, they should be separated by a comma without space.References
Pounds S, Cheng C, Cao X, Crews KR, Plunkett W, Gandhi V, Rubnitz J, Ribeiro RC, Downing JR, and Lamba J (2009)
PROMISE: a tool to identify genomic features with a specific biologically interesting pattern of associations
with multiple endpoint variables. Bioinformatics 25: 2013-2019