Re: [Bioc-devel] Alternative Hypothesis Specification For edgeR

2017-01-18 Thread Aaron Lun
Ah - sorry - upon re-reading your message, I realized I misunderstood your question. So basically you want to make your LRT p-value one-sided; I can see how that would be useful, e.g., when comparing to negative controls in ChIP-seq or other technologies. I've been doing it fairly simply,

Re: [Bioc-devel] Alternative Hypothesis Specification For edgeR

2017-01-18 Thread Aaron Lun
Hi Dario, I guess so - it would be a fairly easy extension of glmLRT - but why? I can't think of many situations where a non-zero log-fold change is expected under the null hypothesis. Mixture experiments, or correcting for gene dosage due to copy number variants, perhaps. Cheers, Aaron On

[Bioc-devel] Alternative Hypothesis Specification For edgeR

2017-01-15 Thread Dario Strbenac
Good day, In a future release, could the user be allowed to specify an alternative hypothesis such as the coefficient being positive? DESeq2 provides an altHypothesis parameter for such a purpose. -- Dario Strbenac University of Sydney Camperdown NSW 2050