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DDHFm (version 1.0-2.1)

genesimulator: Gene means simulator

Description

Simulates means of the gene intensities for "nps" genes, each replicated "nreps" times. The mean is drawn from a gamma distribution with shape parameter "shape" and scale parameter "scale"

Usage

genesimulator(nreps = 3, nps = 100, shape = 4, scale = 100)

Arguments

nreps
Number of replicates
nps
Number of genes
shape
Shape parameter
scale
Scale parameter

Value

  • A matrix containing nreps*nps rows and 3 columns. The first col contains all the gene mean intensities. The second and third col contain the gene replicate number and gene number respectively.

Details

For many problems a set of reasonable gene mean intensities is useful for testing algorithms that later draw actual gene intensities with distributions that possess a gene mean intensity.