twilight.teststat          package:twilight          R Documentation

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_D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n:

     A function to compute two-sample t, Z and fold change equivalent
     test statistics (paired or unpaired) and correlation coefficients.

_U_s_a_g_e:

     twilight.teststat(xin, yin, method = "fc", paired = FALSE, s0 = NULL)

_A_r_g_u_m_e_n_t_s:

     xin: Either an expression set ('exprSet') or a data matrix with
          rows corresponding to features and columns corresponding to
          samples. 

     yin: A numerical vector containing class labels. The higher label
          denotes the case, the lower label the control samples to test
          case vs. control. For correlation scores, 'yin' can be any
          numerical vector of length equal to the number of samples. 

  method: Character string: '"fc"' for fold change equivalent test
          (that is log ratio test), '"t"' for t-test, and '"z"' for
          Z-test of Tusher et al. (2001). With '"pearson"' or
          '"spearman"', the test statistic is either Pearson's
          correlation coefficient or Spearman's rank correlation
          coefficient.

  paired: Logical value. Depends on whether the samples are paired.
          Ignored if 'method="pearson"' or 'method="spearman"'.

      s0: Fudge factor for variance correction in the Z-test. Takes
          effect only if 'method="z"'. If 's0=NULL': The fudge factor
          is set to the median of the pooled standard deviations.

_D_e_t_a_i_l_s:

     Please see vignette for detailed information.

_V_a_l_u_e:

     A numerical vector of test statistics is returned. Each entry
     corresponds to one row of the input data matrix.

_A_u_t_h_o_r(_s):

     Stefanie Scheid <URL: http://www.molgen.mpg.de/~scheid>

_R_e_f_e_r_e_n_c_e_s:

     Scheid S and Spang R (2004): A stochastic downhill search
     algorithm for estimating the local false discovery rate, _IEEE
     TCBB_ *1(3)*, 98-108.

     Tusher VG, Tibshirani R and Chu G (2001): Significance analysis of
     mircroarrays applied to the ionizing response, _PNAS_ *98(9)*,
     5116-5121.

_S_e_e _A_l_s_o:

     'twilight.pval'

_E_x_a_m_p_l_e_s:

     ### Z-test on random values
     M <- matrix(rnorm(20000),nrow=1000)
     id <- c(rep(1,10),rep(0,10))
     stat <- twilight.teststat(M,id,method="z")

     ### Pearson correlation
     id <- 1:20
     stat <- twilight.teststat(M,id,method="pearson")

