dispersionTable {monocle}R Documentation

Retrieve a table of values specifying the mean-variance relationship

Description

Calling estimateDispersions computes a smooth function describing how variance in each gene's expression across cells varies according to the mean. This function only works for CellDataSet objects containing count-based expression data, either transcripts or reads.

Usage

dispersionTable(cds)

Arguments

cds

The CellDataSet from which to extract a dispersion table.

Value

A data frame containing the empirical mean expression, empirical dispersion, and the value estimated by the dispersion model.


[Package monocle version 2.22.0 Index]