MAPsig2: Pattern signifficance

Description

Function computes significance of observed number of strong and soft matches by randomly assigning group labels in each study.

Usage

MAPsig2(out,value.dis, unique.pat, B = 1000)

Arguments

out

output from function test.group.shuffle

value.dis

binary matrix from T-statistics

unique.pat

unique meta-analysis patterns

number of iterations

Value

data.frame with p-values for number of oberved soft and strong matches

References

Yang, X., Bentink, S. and Spang, R. 2005, Detecting Common Gene Expression Patterns in Multiple Cancer Outcome Entities, Biomedical Microdevices, Vol.7:3, pp. 247-251