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PSCBS (version 0.38.4)

estimateDeltaLOH.PairedPSCBS: Estimate a threshold for calling LOH from DH

Description

Estimate a threshold for calling LOH from DH to be used by the *callLOH() method.

Usage

## S3 method for class 'PairedPSCBS':
estimateDeltaLOH(this, flavor=c("minC1|nonAB"), ..., max=Inf, verbose=FALSE)

Arguments

scale
An optional numeric scale factor.
flavor
A character string specifying which type of estimator to use.
...
Additional arguments passed to the estimator.
max
(Optional) The maxium estimate allowed. If greater than this value, the estimate will be truncated.
verbose
See Verbose.

Value

  • Returns the threshold estimate as a numeric scalar or -Inf. In case it is not possible to estimate the LOH threshold, then -Inf is returned.

See Also

Internally, one of the following methods are used: *estimateDeltaLOHByMinC1ForNonAB().