meanTech {rtpcr}

Calculating mean of technical replicates

Description

Calculating arithmetic mean of technical replicates for subsequent ANOVA analysis

Usage

meanTech(x, groups)

Arguments

x

A raw data frame including technical replicates.

groups

grouping columns based on which the mean technical replicates are calculated.

Details

The meanTech calculates mean of technical replicates. Arithmetic mean of technical replicates can be calculated in order to simplify the statistical comparison between sample groups.

Value

A data frame with the mean of technical replicates.

Author(s)

Ghader Mirzaghaderi

Examples

# See example input data frame:
data_withTechRep

# Calculating mean of technical replicates
meanTech(data_withTechRep, groups = 1:4)

# Calculating mean of technical replicates
meanTech(Lee_etal2020qPCR, groups = 1:3)