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PSCBS (version 0.67.0)

estimateStandardDeviation.CBS: Estimates the whole-genome standard deviation of the signals

Description

Estimates the whole-genome standard deviation of the signals.

Usage

# S3 method for CBS
estimateStandardDeviation(fit, chromosomes=NULL, method=c("diff", "res", "abs",
  "DNAcopy"), estimator=c("mad", "sd"), na.rm=TRUE, weights=NULL, ...)

Value

Returns a non-negative numeric scale.

Arguments

chromosomes

An optional vector specifying the subset of chromosomes used for the estimate. If NULL, all chromosomes are used.

method

A character string specifying the method used.

estimator

A character string or a function specifying the internal estimator.

na.rm

If TRUE, missing values are dropped, otherwise not.

weights

An optional double vector of nbrOfLoci() non-negative weights.

...

Not used.

Author

Henrik Bengtsson

See Also

For more information see CBS.