MI {ProgModule}

Calculate mutual information.

Description

The function ‘MI' is used to calculate the mutual information score between samples’ survival status and mutation status.

Usage

MI(mylist1, mylist2)

Arguments

mylist1

Is input a list of samples' survival status.

mylist2

Is input a list of samples' mutation status.

Value

The mutual information score

Examples

#load the data
data(mut_status)
sur<-system.file("extdata","sur.csv",package = "ProgModule")
sur<-read.delim(sur,sep=",",header=TRUE,row.names = 1)
#perform the function 'MI'
mut_matrix<-MI(mylist1 = as.numeric(mut_status[1,]),mylist2 = sur[,1])