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ddpcr (version 1.15.2)

remove_outliers: Analysis Step: Remove outlier droplets

Description

Identify droplets that have an abnormally high fluorescence intensity as outliers. Any such droplets will be assigned to the OUTLIER cluster.

See the README for more information about the algorithm used to find outlier droplets.

Usage

remove_outliers(plate)

Value

A ddPCR plate with outlier droplets marked as outliers. The plate's metadata will have a new variable drops_outlier which will count the number of outlier droplets in each well.

Arguments

plate

A ddPCR plate.

Details

This function is recommended to be run as part of an analysis pipeline (ie. within the analyze function) rather than being called directly.

See Also

analyze
get_outlier_cutoff