pwod: Probe-Wise Outlier Detection

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pwodR Documentation

Probe-Wise Outlier Detection

Description

'P'robe-'W'ise 'O'utlier 'D'etection via interquartile ranges.

Usage

pwod(object, mul=4)

Arguments

object

MethyLumiSet, RGChannelSet, MethylSet object or matrix containing betas.

mul

Number of interquartile ranges used to determine outlying probes. Default is 4 to ensure only very obvious outliers are removed.

Details

Detects outlying probes across arrays in methylumi and minfi objects. Outliers are probable low MAF/SNP heterozygotes.

Value

Returns supplied beta matrix with outlying probes coerced to NA

Author(s)

Tyler Gorrie-Stone - tgorri@essex.ac.uk

Examples

library(wateRmelon)
data(melon)
cattle <- betas(melon)
new.betas <- pwod(cattle, mul=4)

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