GetPrior {TOAST} | R Documentation

## Get prior knowledge for supported tissue types

### Description

Users can use this function to get priors provided in this package. Users can also directly specify tisuse type in MDeconv function.

### Usage

    GetPrior(alpha = NULL, sigma = NULL)

### Arguments

`alpha` | A string chosen from "human pbmc","human liver", "human brain", "human pancreas", "human skin", or a nuemric vector for manually specified alpha.
`sigma` | Keep it as NULL for supported tissues. Otherwise a numeric vector for manuallly specified sigma.

### Value

`alpha_prior` | Prior knowledge for the mean of proportions.
`sigma_prior` | Prior knowledge for the sigma of proprotions.

### Author(s)

Ziyi Li <ziyi.li@emory.edu>

### References

Ziyi Li, Zhenxing Guo, Ying Cheng, Peng Jin, Hao Wu. "Robust partial reference-free cell compoisiton estimation from tissue expression profiles."

### Examples

    GetPrior("human pbmc")
    GetPrior("human liver")
    GetPrior("human brain")
    GetPrior("human skin")
    GetPrior("human pancreas")

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