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PSCBS (version 0.67.0)

estimateDeltaLOH.PairedPSCBS: Estimate a threshold for calling LOH from DH

Description

Estimate a threshold for calling LOH from DH to be used by the *callLOH() method.

Usage

# S3 method for PairedPSCBS
estimateDeltaLOH(this, flavor=c("minC1|nonAB"), ..., max=Inf, verbose=FALSE)

Value

Returns the threshold estimate as a numeric scalar or -Inf. In case it is not possible to estimate the LOH threshold, then -Inf is returned.

Arguments

flavor

A character string specifying which type of estimator to use.

...

Additional arguments passed to the estimator.

max

(Optional) The maximum estimate allowed. If greater than this value, the estimate will be truncated.

verbose

See Verbose.

Author

Henrik Bengtsson

See Also

Internally, one of the following methods are used: *estimateDeltaLOHByMinC1ForNonAB().