tool.unify {Mergeomics} | R Documentation

## Convert a distribution to uniform ranks

### Description

`tool.unify` converts a distribution to uniform ranks with respect to a background distribution (or self if no background available).

### Usage

    tool.unify(xtrait, xnull = NULL)

### Arguments

`xtrait` | the distribution that will be standardized, i.e. uniformly distributed
`xnull` | background distribution to be used to distribute `xtrait` uniformly. If `xnull` is not specified, `xtrait` will be used as background distr

### Value

`y` | uniformly distributed form of `xtrait`

### Author(s)

Ville-Petteri Makinen

### Examples

    x <- rnorm(10)
    y <- tool.unify(x) ## uniformly distributed form of x when null dist is x
    z <- tool.unify(x, y) ## uniformly distributed form of x when null dist is y

[Package Mergeomics version 1.20.0 Index]