normalize.quantiles2         package:RefPlus         R Documentation

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_D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n:

     Quantile normalization to a reference set.

_U_s_a_g_e:

     normalize.quantiles2(X, Reference.Quantiles)

_A_r_g_u_m_e_n_t_s:

       X: A matrix of probe intensity data to be reference quantile 
          normalized.

Reference.Quantiles: A vector of the reference quantiles that the probe
           intensities of a sample is normalized to.

_D_e_t_a_i_l_s:

     The function quantile normalized the probe intensities of a set of
     microarrays to a set of reference quantiles which are formed by a
     set of reference  microarrays.

_V_a_l_u_e:

     The reference quantile normalized probe intensities.

_A_u_t_h_o_r(_s):

     Kai-Ming Chang(kaiming@mail.kfcc.org.tw)

_R_e_f_e_r_e_n_c_e_s:

     Chang,K.M., Harbron,C., South,M.C. (2006) An Exploration of 
     Extensions to the RMA Algorithm. Available with the RefPlus
     package.

_S_e_e _A_l_s_o:

     'normalize.quantiles'

_E_x_a_m_p_l_e_s:

     A<-matrix(rnorm(30),10,3)
     core<-1:10
     An<-normalize.quantiles2(A,core)
     rank(A[,1])==An[,1]

