normalize.ExpressionSet.qd: quantile discretization normalization

Description Usage Arguments Details Value Author(s) References See Also Examples

Description

Performs a discretization of continous expression levels to discrete steps.

Usage

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normalize.ExpressionSet.qd(ExpressionSet = NULL, nbin = 8, ...)

Arguments

ExpressionSet

An ExpressionSet object.

nbin

Numeric vector of length 1; indicates the number of binnings for the discretization.

...

Can be used to pass on parameters to underlying functions.

Details

Please see the references for details.

Value

An ExpressionSet object with adjusted expression matrix.

Author(s)

Andreas Heider

References

Warnat P, Eils R, Brors B: Cross-platform analysis of cancer microarray data improves gene expression based classification of phenotypes. BMC bioinformatics 2005, 6:265.

See Also

virtualArrayExpressionSets

Examples

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# library(affydata)
# data(Dilution)
# Dilution <- rma(Dilution)
# normalize.ExpressionSet.qd(Dilution)

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