dispersionTable {monocle} | R Documentation

## Retrieve a table of values specifying the mean-variance relationship

### Description

Calling estimateDispersions computes a smooth function describing how variance in each gene's expression across cells varies according to the mean. This function only works for CellDataSet objects containing count-based expression data, either transcripts or reads.

### Usage

    dispersionTable(cds)

### Arguments

`cds` | The CellDataSet from which to extract a dispersion table.

### Value

A data frame containing the empirical mean expression, empirical dispersion, and the value estimated by the dispersion model.

[Package monocle version 2.14.0 Index]