Seurat (version 1.4.0)

AssessSplit: Assess Cluster Split

Description

Method for determining confidence in specific bifurcations in the cluster tree. Use the Out of Bag (OOB) error of a random forest classifier to judge confidence.

Usage

AssessSplit(object, node, cluster1, cluster2, print.output = T, ...)

Arguments

object

Seurat object

node

Node in the cluster tree in question

cluster1

First cluster to compare

cluster2

Second cluster to compare

print.output

Print the OOB error for the classifier

...

additional parameters to pass to BuildRFClassifier

Value

Returns the Out of Bag error for a random forest classifier trained on the split from the given node