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Calculate mutual information for a given PHG data set

Source: R/class_all_generics.R, R/class_phg_dataset.R
calcMutualInfo.Rd

Calculates mutual information from an rPHG data set object containing haplotype id and reference range information. Mutual information quantifies the "amount of information" obtained about one random variable through observing the other random variable. This will calcuate the the mutual information across all pairs of reference ranges.

Usage

calcMutualInfo(object, ...)

# S4 method for PHGDataSet
calcMutualInfo(object)

Arguments

object

an rPHG dataset containing haplotype and reference range information

...

Additional arguments, for use in specific methods