kendallfdrci {GeneNT}R Documentation

Two-stage screening procedure based on Kendall correlation coefficient

Description

This function implement the two-stage screening procedure based on Kendall correlation coefficient. Specifying a pair of FDR and MAS criteria, the algorithm provides an initial co-expression discovery that controls only FDR, which is then followed by a second stage co-expression discovery which controls both FDR and MAS.

Usage

kendallfdrci(Q, cormin, method)

Arguments

Q The significant level
cormin The specified minimum acceptable strength of association measured using Kendall correlation coefficient
method The multiple comparison adjustment methods, eg, "BH" (for independent tests) and "BY" (for general dependent tests)

Details

The data matrix file must be in the right format. The first row must be one shorter than the rest rows. The first column must be gene names.

Value

The function returns a list of gene pairs that satisfies the FDR and MAS criteria simultaneously measured by Kendall correlation coefficient.

kG1 The gene pairs that passes Stage I (FDR only) screening
kG2 The gene pairs that passed both Stage I (FDR) and II (MAS) screenings

Author(s)

Dongxiao Zhu (http://dongxiaozhu.googlepages.com/home)

References

Zhu, D., Hero, A.O., Qin, Z.S. and Swaroop, A. High throughput screening of co-expressed gene pairs with controlled False Discovery Rate (FDR) and Minimum Acceptable Strength (MAS). J Comput Biol, 12, 1027-1043. Hollander M. and Wolfe D.A. (1999). Nonparametric Statistical Methods, New York: Wiley.

See Also

corfdrci

Examples

## load GeneNT library
library(GeneNT)

## load example dataset
data(dat) 
## Note, data matrix name has to be "dat"

g2 <- kendallfdrci(0.2, 0.5, "BY") 
kG1 <- g2$kG1
## kG2 contains gene pairs that passed two-stage screening
kG2 <- g2$kG2  

[Package GeneNT version 1.4 Index]