test.posterior {CNVtools} | R Documentation

## Checks posterior probabilities are monotonic.

### Description

The posterior probability of belonging to a particular component should fall to zero monotonically as the signal increases or decreases away from the component mean. This function checks for posterior distributions that do not have this property.

### Usage

    test.posterior(frame, ncomp, samples.by.disease = NULL)

### Arguments

`frame` | Posterior data frame.
`ncomp` | Number of components.
`samples.by.disease` | List containing samples split on disease status.

### Value

Returns TRUE is the posterior is not monotonic.

### Author(s)

Vincent Plagnol vincent.plagnol@cimr.cam.ac.uk and Chris Barnes christopher.barnes@imperial.ac.uk

[Package CNVtools version 1.81.0 Index]