normalFactors {ABSSeq} | R Documentation

## Estimating size factors from the reads count table

### Description

Function for esitmating size factors

### Usage

    normalFactors(object)

### Arguments

`object` | a ABSSeq object with element of 'counts' and 'normMethod', see the constructor functions `ABSDataSet`.

### Details

Given a matrix of count data, this function esitmates the size factors by selected method. It aslo provides four different methods for normalizing according to user-defined size factors, total reads, up quantile (75

### Value

a ABSDataSet object with the estimates size factors, one element per column. Use the `sFactors` to show it.

### Examples

    data(simuN5)
    obj <- ABSDataSet(counts=simuN5$counts, groups=factor(simuN5$groups))
    obj <- normalFactors(obj)
    sFactors(obj)

[Package ABSSeq version 1.42.0 Index]