Functions that estimate sample (taxonomic) composition from
biomarker data
bce1 estimates probability distributions of a sample composition
based on an input ratio matrix, A, containing
biomarker ratios in (field) samples, and an input data matrix,
B, containing the biomarker ratios for several taxonomic groups
tlsce estimates the total least squares solution
This version differs from the previous version <2 in that a different
MCMC method is used that shows better convergence properties and
has a more sound underlying statistical model.
Details
Package:
BCE
Type:
Package
License:
GNU Public License 2 or above
Author(s)
Karel Van den Meersche (Maintainer)
Karline Soetaert
References
Van den Meersche, K., K. Soetaert and J.J. Middelburg (2008) A
Bayesian compositional estimator for microbial taxonomy
based on biomarkers, Limnology and Oceanography Methods 6, 190-199
See Also
bce the new function, with better convergence properties
BCE the original function (versions < 2)
tlsce total least squares compositional estimator
Examples
## Not run:
## show examples (see respective help pages for details)
example(bce)
example(tlsce)
## show package vignette
browseURL(paste(system.file(package = "BCE"), "/doc", sep = ""))
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