metagene (version 1.0.0)

binBootstrap: Estimate mean and confidence interval of a column using bootstrap.

Description

Since the sample size can be small, the use of a bootstrap function can help to calculate a better approximation of the mean and reduce the confidence intervals.

Usage

binBootstrap( data, alpha, sampleSize, cores=1)

Arguments

data

A vector representing a column from the binned matrix.

alpha

Confidence interval.

sampleSize

Number of time each bin will be resampled ( hould be at least 1000).

cores

Number of cores for parallel processing (require parallel package).

Value

binBootstrap returns a list with the mean of the bootstrapped vector and the quartile of order alpha/2 and (1-alpha/2)

Examples

  ## Not run: metagene:::binBootstrap(1:100, alpha=0.05, sampleSize=100)