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strvalidator (version 0.1)

calculateH: Calculate average peak height.

Description

calculateH calculates the average peak height for a sample.

Usage

calculateH(data)

Arguments

data
a data frame with at least 'Sample.Name', 'Z', and 'Height' columns.

Value

  • data.frame with with three columns: 'Sample.Name', 'H', and 'Peaks'.

Details

Calculates the average peak height (H) for a sample. Takes (GM-formatted) data for samples as input. Sample data must contain a column "Z", where 1 = heterozygote loci, and 2 = homozygote loci as known from the reference sample. Calculates H according to the formula: $H = sum(peak heights)/(n[het] + 2n[hom]$ Where: n[het] = number of observed heterozygote alleles n[hom] = number of observed homozygote alleles