noba {bapred}

No batch effect adjustment

Description

This function is merely included for consistency. It returns the raw dataset not adjusted for batch effects.

Usage

noba(x, batch)

Arguments

x

matrix. The covariate matrix. Observations in rows, variables in columns.

batch

factor. Batch variable. Each factor level (or 'category') corresponds to one of the batches. For example, if there are four batches, this variable would have four factor levels and observations with the same factor level would belong to the same batch.

Value

noba returns an object of class noba. An object of class "noba" is a list containing the following components:

xadj

matrix of (training) data

nbatches

number of batches

batch

batch variable

Author(s)

Roman Hornung

Examples

data(autism)

Xadj <- noba(x=X, batch=batch)$adj

all(as.vector(Xadj)==as.vector(X))