simpleSimulate {splatter}R Documentation

Simple simulation

Description

Simulate counts from a simple negative binomial distribution without simulated library sizes, differential expression etc.

Usage

simpleSimulate(params = newSimpleParams(), verbose = TRUE, ...)

Arguments

params

SimpleParams object containing simulation parameters.

verbose

logical. Whether to print progress messages

...

any additional parameter settings to override what is provided in params.

Details

Gene means are simulated from a gamma distribution with shape = mean.shape and rate = mean.rate. Counts are then simulated from a negative binomial distribution with mu = means and size = 1 / counts.disp. See SimpleParams for more details of the parameters.

Value

SingleCellExperiment containing simulated counts

Examples

sim <- simpleSimulate()
# Override default parameters
sim <- simpleSimulate(nGenes = 1000, nCells = 50)

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