chiCombP {methylPipe}R Documentation

Fisher's method implementation

Description

Fisher's method implementation, used to combine the results from several independent tests bearing upon the same overall hypothesis.

Usage

chiCombP(Pvalues)

Arguments

Pvalues

an array of pvalues

Details

Pvalues will not be corrected for multiple testing. The sum of the log of the pvalues is determined (S). -2*S has a chi-square distribution with 2k degrees of freedom, where k is the number of tests being combined. A chi-square test is then performed.

Value

The chi-square final pvalue

Author(s)

Mattia Pelizzola

Examples

chiCombP(c(1e-3,1e-5,1e-2))

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