Combine multiple continuous variables by proportion of positive values

To summarize multiple features, the proportion of features with positive values for each spot is computed.

multi_gene_sparsity(cont_mat)

Arguments

cont_mat

A matrix() with spots as rows and 2 or more continuous variables as columns.

Value

A numeric() vector with one element per spot, summarizing the multiple continuous variables.

See also

Other functions for summarizing expression of multiple continuous variables simultaneously: multi_gene_pca(), multi_gene_z_score()

Author

Nicholas J. Eagles