genesimulator {DDHFm}R Documentation

Gene means simulator

Description

Simulates means of the gene intensities for "nps" genes, each replicated "nreps" times. The mean is drawn from a gamma distribution with shape parameter "shape" and scale parameter "scale"

Usage

genesimulator(nreps = 3, nps = 100, shape = 4, scale = 100)

Arguments

nreps Number of replicates
nps Number of genes
shape Shape parameter
scale Scale parameter

Details

For many problems a set of reasonable gene mean intensities is useful for testing algorithms that later draw actual gene intensities with distributions that possess a gene mean intensity.

Value

A matrix containing nreps*nps rows and 3 columns. The first col contains all the gene mean intensities. The second and third col contain the gene replicate number and gene number respectively.

Author(s)

Guy Nason <g.p.nason@bris.ac.uk>


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