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cancerclass

Development and validation of diagnostic tests from high-dimensional molecular data

Bioconductor version: 3.23 · Package version: 1.56.0

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3.24 (devel), 3.23 (release)

The classification protocol starts with a feature selection step and continues with nearest-centroid classification. The accurarcy of the predictor can be evaluated using training and test set validation, leave-one-out cross-validation or in a multiple random validation protocol. Methods for calculation and visualization of continuous prediction scores allow to balance sensitivity and specificity and define a cutoff value according to clinical requirements.

DOI: 10.18129/B9.bioc.cancerclass

Installation

if (!require("BiocManager", quietly = TRUE))
    install.packages("BiocManager")

BiocManager::install("cancerclass")

Details

MaintainerDaniel Kosztyla <danielkossi@hotmail.com>
AuthorJan Budczies, Daniel Kosztyla
LicenseGPL 3
Source branchRELEASE_3_23
Build report Bioconductor build system, r-universe
biocViewsCancer, Classification, Microarray, Software, Visualization
Package Short Url https://bioconductor.org/packages/cancerclass/

Citation

From within R, enter citation("cancerclass"):

Jan Budczies, Daniel Kosztyla. cancerclass: Development and validation of diagnostic tests from high-dimensional molecular data. doi:10.18129/B9.bioc.cancerclass, R package version 1.56.0, https://bioconductor.org/packages/cancerclass.

Generated from the package metadata; it may differ from the package's own citation.

Documentation

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Follow the installation instructions to use this package in your R session.

Source packagecancerclass_1.56.0.tar.gz
Windows binary (x86_64)cancerclass_1.56.0.zip
macOS binary (arm64)cancerclass_1.56.0.tgz
macOS binary (x86_64)cancerclass_1.56.0.tgz
Dependencies

Depends: R (>= 2.14.0), Biobase, binom, methods, stats

Suggests: cancerdata