calcCV               package:qpcrNorm               R Documentation

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_D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n:

     This function calculates the coefficient of variation for each
     gene in the qPCR experiment,  and returns the average coefficient
     of variation across all genes.

_U_s_a_g_e:

     calcCV(qBatch)

_A_r_g_u_m_e_n_t_s:

  qBatch: A 'qpcrBatch' object. 

_V_a_l_u_e:

     A 'numeric' value.

_A_u_t_h_o_r(_s):

     Jess Mar jess@jimmy.harvard.edu

_E_x_a_m_p_l_e_s:

             data(qpcrBatch.object) 
             mynormRI.data <- normQpcrRankInvariant(qpcrBatch.object, 1)
             mynormQuant.data <- normQpcrQuantile(qpcrBatch.object)    
             barplot(c(calcCV(mynormRI.data), calcCV(mynormQuant.data)), col=c("red", "blue"))

