"FCSsummary-class" {rflowcyt}R Documentation

Class "FCSsummary" Summary object for a "FCS-class"

Description

The data summary statistics along with metadata output help summarize a "FCS-class" object using the "summary" method.

Objects from the Class

Objects can be created by calls of the form new("FCSsummary", ...).

Slots

num.cells:
Object of class "numeric" the number of cells or rows from the data
num.param:
Object of class "numeric" the number of parameters or columns from the data
univariate.stat:
Object of class "matrix" five-number summary including the standard deviation of all the column variables
metadata.info:
Object of class "list" with the following slots: "Description", "ColumnParametersSummary", and "fcsinfoNames".

Methods

"print-methods"
signature(x = "FCSsummary"): prints the output of the summary statistics of the data and the metadata
"show-methods"
signature(object = "FCSsummary"): same as "print"

Author(s)

A.J. Rossini, J.Y. Wan, and Zoe Moodie

References

Trevor Hastie, Robert Tibshirani, and Jerome Friedman. The Elements of Statistical Learning: Data Mining, Inference, and Prediction. Springer Series in Statistics : New York, 2001. pp.279-283.

Jerome H. Friedman and Nicholas I. Fisher. Bump Hunting in High-Dimensional Data. Tech Report. October 28, 1998.

J. Paul Robinson, et al. Current Protocols in Cytometry. John Wiley & Sons, Inc : 2001.

Mario Roederer and Richard R. Hardy. Frequency Difference Gating: A Multivariate Method for Identifying Subsets that Differe between Samples. Cytometry, 45:56-64, 2001.

Mario Roederer and Adam Treister and Wayne Moore and Leonore A. Herzenberg. Probability Binning Comparison: A Metric for Quantitating Univariate Distribution Differences. Cytometry, 45:37-46, 2001.

Keith A. Baggerly. Probability Binning and Testing Agreement between Multivariate Immunofluorescence Histograms: Extending the Chi-Squared Test. Cytometry, 45:141-150, 2001.

See Also

"FCS-class", "show-methods", "print-methods"

Examples

default.sum<-new("FCSsummary")

## show, print
default.sum


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