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R: Combine independent p-values using the Fisher method
compute.fisherR Documentation

Combine independent p-values using the Fisher method

Description

Combine independent p-values using the Fisher method

Usage

compute.fisher(p, eps = 1e-06)

Arguments

p

a vector of independent p-values

eps

the minimal p-value considered (all p-values smaller will be set to this value)

Value

the combined p-value

Author(s)

Calin Voichita and Sorin Draghici

References

Tarca AL., Draghici S., Khatri P., Hassan SS., Kim J., Kim CJ., Kusanovic JP., Romero R.: "A Signaling Pathway Impact Analysis for Microarray Experiments", 2008, Bioinformatics, 2009, 25(1):75-82.

See Also

pe,compute.normalInv

Examples


p <- c(.1, .01)
compute.fisher(p)

Results


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> library(ROntoTools)
Loading required package: graph
Loading required package: BiocGenerics
Loading required package: parallel

Attaching package: 'BiocGenerics'

The following objects are masked from 'package:parallel':

    clusterApply, clusterApplyLB, clusterCall, clusterEvalQ,
    clusterExport, clusterMap, parApply, parCapply, parLapply,
    parLapplyLB, parRapply, parSapply, parSapplyLB

The following objects are masked from 'package:stats':

    IQR, mad, xtabs

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    Filter, Find, Map, Position, Reduce, anyDuplicated, append,
    as.data.frame, cbind, colnames, do.call, duplicated, eval, evalq,
    get, grep, grepl, intersect, is.unsorted, lapply, lengths, mapply,
    match, mget, order, paste, pmax, pmax.int, pmin, pmin.int, rank,
    rbind, rownames, sapply, setdiff, sort, table, tapply, union,
    unique, unsplit

Loading required package: boot
Loading required package: KEGGREST
Loading required package: KEGGgraph

Attaching package: 'KEGGgraph'

The following object is masked from 'package:graphics':

    plot

Loading required package: Rgraphviz
Loading required package: grid
> png(filename="/home/ddbj/snapshot/RGM3/R_BC/result/ROntoTools/compute.fisher.Rd_%03d_medium.png", width=480, height=480)
> ### Name: compute.fisher
> ### Title: Combine independent p-values using the Fisher method
> ### Aliases: compute.fisher
> 
> ### ** Examples
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> p <- c(.1, .01)
> compute.fisher(p)
[1] 0.007907755
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> dev.off()
null device 
          1 
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