Calculates the average empirical distribution across all samples.
# S3 method for AffymetrixCelSet
averageQuantile(this, probes=NULL, excludeCells=NULL, ..., verbose=FALSE)Returns a double
vector of length N.
If NAs are detected in a sample, these are excluded and the
approx() function (approx) is used to "expand"
the vector of the remaining values so that the sorted vector
(still) have length N.
Henrik Bengtsson
This methods implements Step A2-A3 in the algorithm for quantile normalization proposed by Bengtsson et al. (2008).
[1] H. Bengtsson, R. Irizarry, B. Carvalho, & T.P. Speed. Estimation and assessment of raw copy numbers at the single locus level, Bioinformatics, 2008.
averageQuantile.list
For more information see AffymetrixCelSet.