Primo_modT: Estimate posterior probabilities of association patterns,...

Description Usage Arguments Details Value

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Description

For each observation (e.g. SNP), estimates the posterior probability of each association pattern. This version of the main Primo function uses moderated t-statistics and parameters previously calculated under the 'limma' framework (i.e. using estimate_densities_modT). It is useful for cases where the same statistic from one study (e.g. gene-SNP pair) may be mapped to multiple statistics from another study (e.g. multiple gene-CpG pairings). Utilizes parallel computing, when available.

Usage

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Primo_modT(Tstat_mod, mdfs, V_mat, Gamma, tol = 0.001, par_size = 1)

Arguments

Tstat_mod

matrix of moderated t-statistics.

mdfs

matrix of moderated degrees of freedom.

V_mat

matrix of scaling factors.

Gamma

correlation matrix.

tol

numeric value specifying the tolerance threshold for convergence.

par_size

numeric value specifying the number of workers for parallel computing (1 for sequential processing).

Details

The following are additional details describing the input arguments (for m SNPs/observations measured in d studies):

Tstat_mod m x d matrix.
mdfs m x d matrix.
V_mat m x d matrix.
Gamma d x d matrix.

Value

A list with the following elements:

post_prob matrix of posterior probabilities (each column corresponds to an association pattern).
pis vector of estimated proportion of observations belonging to each association pattern.
D_mat matrix of densities under each association pattern.
Gamma correlation matrix.
Tstat_mod matrix of moderated t-statistics.
V_mat matrix of scaling factors under the alternative distribution.
mdf_sd_mat matrix of standard deviation adjustment according to moderated degrees of freedom: df/(df-2).

The main element of interest for inference is the posterior probabilities matrix, post_prob. The estimated proportion of observations belonging to each association pattern, pis, may also be of interest. The remaining elements are returned primarily for use by other functions.


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