chiCombP {methylPipe} | R Documentation

## Fisher's method implementation

### Description

Fisher's method implementation, used to combine the results from several independent tests bearing upon the same overall hypothesis.

### Usage

    chiCombP(Pvalues)

### Arguments

`Pvalues` | an array of pvalues

### Details

Pvalues will not be corrected for multiple testing. The sum of the log of the pvalues is determined (S). -2*S has a chi-square distribution with 2k degrees of freedom, where k is the number of tests being combined. A chi-square test is then performed.

### Value

The chi-square final pvalue

### Author(s)

Mattia Pelizzola

### Examples

    chiCombP(c(1e-3,1e-5,1e-2))

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