PANR (version 1.18.0)

infer: Infer a posterior association network

Description

The function infers a posterior association network from beta-mixture modelling of functional associations computed from rich phenotyping screens.

Usage

infer(object, para=list(type='SNR', log=TRUE, sign=TRUE, cutoff=0),
filter=FALSE, verbose=TRUE, ...)

Arguments

object

an object of S4 class PAN.

para

a list of parameters to perform inference (see details).

filter

a logical value specifying whether or not to filter out genes without any significant association with all the other genes.

verbose

a logical value to switch on (if TRUE) or off if FALSE detailed run-time message.

...

not in use, only for further extension.

Value

This function will return an object of class PAN with inferred PAN updated in slot 'graph'.

Details

This function employs different edge weights to infer a posterior association network (see edgeWeight for more details). Multiple parameters are provided for the user to specify the network:

'type' - a character value giving the type of edge weights: signal-to- noise ratio ('SNR'), posterior probability ratio ('PPR') or posterior probability ('PP').

'log' - a logical value specifying whether or not to compute logrithms for edge weights.

'sign' - a logical value specifying whether a signed graph should be inferred. It is only valid when type='SNR'.

'cutoff' - a numeric value giving the threshold to tell the significance of an edge.

References

Xin Wang, Mauro Castro, Klaas W. Mulder and Florian Markowetz, Posterior association networks and enriched functional gene modules inferred from rich phenotypic perturbation screens, in preparation.

See Also

edgeWeight

Examples

data(bm, package="PANR")
pan<-new("PAN", bm1=bm1)
pan<-infer(pan, para=list(type="SNR", log=TRUE, sign=TRUE, cutoff=log(5)),
filter=FALSE, verbose=TRUE)