Sample feature abundance values from the given distributions. This function
is used internally by simphony(), and should not usually need to be
called directly.
Matrix of abundance values, where rows correspond to features and
columns correspond to samples.
Arguments
abundDt
data.table of expected abundance. If family is 'gaussian',
required columns are feature, sample, mu, and sd. If family is
'negbinom', required columns are feature, sample, mu, dispFunc,
cond, and group. If family is 'bernoulli' or 'poisson', required
columns are feature, sample, and mu.
logOdds
Logical for whether mu corresponds to log-odds. Only used if
family is 'bernoulli'.
family
Character string for the family of distributions from which
to sample the abundance values. simphony will give a warning if it tries
to sample from a distribution outside the region in which the distribution
is defined: \(\mu < 0\) for negative binomial and Poisson, and
\(\mu < 0\) or \(\mu > 1\) for Bernoulli.
inplace
Logical for whether to modify abundDt in-place, adding a
column abund containing the abundance values.