PhenStat (version 2.6.0)

recommendMethod: Method "recommendMethod"

Description

Checks the dependent variable and dataset to make choose the appropriate statistical method. Returns the method or the list of methods that are appropriate for statistical analysis.

Usage

recommendMethod(phenList=NULL, depVariable=NULL, outputMessages=TRUE)

Arguments

phenList

instance of the PhenList class; mandatory argument

depVariable

a character string defining the dependent variable of interest; mandatory argument

outputMessages

flag: "FALSE" value to suppress output messages; "TRUE" value to show output messages; default value TRUE

Value

Returns the method or the list of methods that are appropriate for statistical analysis.

References

Karp N, Melvin D, Sanger Mouse Genetics Project, Mott R (2012): Robust and Sensitive Analysis of Mouse Knockout Phenotypes. PLoS ONE 7(12): e52410. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0052410 West B, Welch K, Galecki A (2007): Linear Mixed Models: A practical guide using statistical software New York: Chapman & Hall/CRC 353 p.

See Also

PhenList

Examples

    file <- system.file("extdata", "test1.csv", package="PhenStat")
    test <- PhenList(dataset=read.csv(file),
            testGenotype="Sparc/Sparc")
    recommendMethod(test,"Lean.Mass")