Estimates the whole-genome standard deviation of the signals.
# S3 method for CBS
estimateStandardDeviation(fit, chromosomes=NULL, method=c("diff", "res", "abs",
"DNAcopy"), estimator=c("mad", "sd"), na.rm=TRUE, weights=NULL, ...)
Returns a non-negative numeric
scale.
An optional vector
specifying the subset of
chromosomes used for the estimate. If NULL
, all chromosomes are used.
A character
string specifying the method used.
A character
string or a function
specifying the
internal estimator.
If TRUE
, missing values are dropped, otherwise not.
An optional double
vector
of nbrOfLoci()
non-negative weights.
Not used.
Henrik Bengtsson
For more information see CBS
.