MAMA (version 2.1.0)

entitybuild2: Function to calculate test statistic for microarray data

Description

Calculates test statistic for microarray data

Usage

entitybuild2(expr.mat, ALLtype = NULL, type, dataset = NULL, minSampleNum = 3, method = "t", random = FALSE)

Arguments

expr.mat

Expression matrix, with rows corresponding to genes and columns to samples

ALLtype

Vector of class labels, must be factor

type

Levels of class labels

dataset

Name of the dataset

minSampleNum

Minimal number of samples required for test statistic

method

Type of test as in mt.teststat (one of fc, t, z)

random

Logical, if TRUE samples are assinged to groups randomly

Value

• Vector of test statistics.

References

Yang, X., Bentink, S. a Spang, R. 2005, Detecting Common Gene Expression Patterns in Multiple Cancer Outcome Entities, Biomedical Microdevices, vol.7:3

Examples

data(Singhdata)
group<-as.factor(Singhdata$classes[[1]])
entitybuild2(Singhdata$esets[[1]], ALLtype=group, type=levels(group))