An adjacency matrix, where the element at row i and column j corresponds to the correlation or mutual information between variables row i and column j. Row and columns of the matrix must have the variable names.
ratio_
The ratio of all the elements in the input adjacency matrix (even if the matrix is symmetric), which the user considers as significant portion.
PCmincutoff
The minimum absolute Pearson correlation value ( by default but can be different) where the below of is not considered as significant.
PCmaxcutoff
The maximum absolute Pearson correlation value ( by default but can be different) where all the above of is considered as significant.
Value
Ac3net.cutoff returns a scaler as a very rough estimate of the cutoff value for the significants of the input adjacency matrix.
Details
Ac3net.cutoff takes an adjacency matrix, ratio and minimum absolute Pearson correlation information. Then return a cutoff value that either correspond to the input ratio or the minimum.
References
G. Altay,"Directed Conservative Causal Core Gene Networks", bioRxiv, 2018.
G. Altay, F. Emmert-Streib, "Inferring the conservative causal core of gene regulatory networks", BMC Systems Biology (2010) 4:132.