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Fast Gene Set Enrichment Analysis
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what is gseaParam? #10

Closed enricoferrero closed 7 years ago

enricoferrero commented 7 years ago

What is the gseaParam argument in fgsea()? The help page just says "GSEA parameter value" and I couldn't find it in the GSEA docs. Thanks!

assaron commented 7 years ago

All the scores are raised to the power of gseaParam in the analysis. In original pape by Subramanian et al (http://www.pnas.org/content/102/43/15545.abstract) it's called exponent p.

enricoferrero commented 7 years ago

Thanks @assaron, it might be worth adding that description in the docs for ?fgsea.