detectOutliers {GLAD} | R Documentation

## Outliers detection

### Description

This function detects MAD outliers.

### Usage

    detectOutliers.profileChr(profileChr, region="Region", alpha=0.001, verbose=FALSE, ...)

### Arguments

`profileChr` | Object of class `profileChr`.
`region` | Label which indicated where outliers are detected.
`alpha` | Risk alpha.
`verbose` | If `TRUE` some information are printed
`...` |

### Details

The MAD outliers are detected within this function. The object of class `profileChr` has the same characteristics than the object of class `profileCGH` but corresponds to the values of only one chromosome.

### Value

An object of class `profileChr` with the following element added to the data.frame `profileValues`:

`OutliersMad` | Each MAD outliers are flagged by -1 (if it is in the lower tail of the distribution) or 1 (if it is in the upper tail of the distribution) otherwise it is 0.
`OutliersTot` | OutliersAws + OutliersMad.

### Author(s)

Philippe Hupé, Philippe.Hupe@curie.fr.

### See Also

`glad.profileCGH`

[Package GLAD version 1.0.1 Index]