p.spatial {OLIN} | R Documentation

## Assessment of the significance of spatial bias based on p-values

### Description

This function assesses the significance of spatial bias. This is achieved by comparing the observed average values of logged fold-changes within a spot's spatial neighbourhood with an empirical distribution generated by permutation tests. The significance is given by (adjusted) p-values derived in one-sided permutation test.

### Usage

    p.spatial(X,delta=2,N=-1,av="median",p.adjust.method="none")

### Arguments

`X` | matrix of logged fold changes
`delta` | integer determining the size of spot neighbourhoods (`(2*delta+1)x(2*delta+1)`).
`N` | number of samples for generation of empirical background distribution
`av` | averaging of `M` within neighbourhood by mean or median (default)
`p.adjust.method` | method for adjusting p-values due to multiple testing regime. The available methods are “none”, “bonferroni”, “holm”, “hochberg”, “hommel” and “fdr”. See also `p.adjust`.

### Details

The function `p.spatial` assesses the significance of spatial bias using an one-sided random permutation test. The null hypothesis states random spotting i.e. the independence of log ratio `M` and spot location. First, a neighbourhood of a spot is defined by a two dimensional square window of chosen size ((2*delta+1)x(2*delta+1)). Next, a test statistic is defined by calculating the median or mean of `M` for `N` random samples of size ((2*delta+1)x(2*delta+1)). Note that this scheme defines a sampling with replacement procedure whereas sampling without replacement is used for `fdr.spatial`. Comparing the empirical distribution of median/mean of \code{M} with the observed distribution of median/mean of \code{M}, the independence of `M` and spot location can be assessed. If `M` is independent of spot's location, the empirical distribution can be expected to be distributed around its mean value. To assess the significance of observing positive deviations of median/mean of \code{M}, p-values are calculated using Fisher's method. The p-value equals the fraction of values in the empirical distribution which are larger than the observed value . The minimal p-value is set to `1/N`. Correspondingly, the significance of observing negative deviations of median/mean of \code{M} can be determined.

### Value

A list of vectors containing the p-values for positive (`Pp`) and negative (`Pn`) deviations of median/mean of \code{M} of the spot's neighbourhood is produced.

### Author(s)

Matthias E. Futschik (http://itb.biologie.hu-berlin.de/~futschik)

### See Also

`fdr.int`, `sigxy.plot`, `p.adjust`

### Examples

    # To run these examples, "un-comment" them!
    #
    # LOADING DATA
    # data(sw)
    # M <- v2m(maM(sw)[,1],Ngc=maNgc(sw),Ngr=maNgr(sw),
    #                Nsc=maNsc(sw),Nsr=maNsr(sw),main="MXY plot of SW-array 1")
    #
    # CALCULATION OF SIGNIFICANCE OF SPOT NEIGHBOURHOODS
    # For this illustration, N was chosen rather small. For "real" analysis, it should be larger.
    # P <- p.spatial(M,delta=2,N=10000,av="median")
    # sigxy.plot(P$Pp,P$Pn,color.lim=c(-5,5),main="FDR")

    # LOADING NORMALISED DATA
    # data(sw.olin)
    # M <- v2m(maM(sw.olin)[,1],Ngc=maNgc(sw.olin),Ngr=maNgr(sw.olin),
    #                Nsc=maNsc(sw.olin),Nsr=maNsr(sw.olin),main="MXY plot of SW-array 1")

    # CALCULATION OF SIGNIFICANCE OF SPOT NEIGHBOURHOODS
    # P <- p.spatial(M,delta=2,N=10000,av="median")
    # VISUALISATION OF RESULTS
    # sigxy.plot(P$Pp,P$Pn,color.lim=c(-5,5),main="FDR")

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