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zitools

Analysis of zero-inflated count data

Bioconductor version: 3.24 · Package version: 1.7.0

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zitools allows for zero inflated count data analysis by either using down-weighting of excess zeros or by replacing an appropriate proportion of excess zeros with NA. Through overloading frequently used statistical functions (such as mean, median, standard deviation), plotting functions (such as boxplots or heatmap) or differential abundance tests, it allows a wide range of downstream analyses for zero-inflated data in a less biased manner. This becomes applicable in the context of microbiome analyses, where the data is often overdispersed and zero-inflated, therefore making data analysis extremly challenging.

DOI: 10.18129/B9.bioc.zitools

Installation

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

BiocManager::install("zitools")

Details

MaintainerCarlotta Meyring <carlotta.meyring@uniklinik-freiburg.de>
AuthorCarlotta Meyring [aut, cre] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0009-0000-6201-7615>)
LicenseBSD_3_clause + file LICENSE
URLhttps://github.com/kreutz-lab/zitools
Bug Reportshttps://github.com/kreutz-lab/zitools/issues
Source branchdevel
Build report Bioconductor build system, r-universe
biocViewsMicrobiome, Software, StatisticalMethod
Package Short Url https://bioconductor.org/packages/zitools/

Citation

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

Carlotta Meyring. zitools: Analysis of zero-inflated count data. doi:10.18129/B9.bioc.zitools, R package version 1.7.0, https://bioconductor.org/packages/zitools.

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 packagezitools_1.7.0.tar.gz
Windows binary (x86_64)zitools_1.7.0.zip
macOS binary (arm64)zitools_1.7.0.tgz
macOS binary (x86_64)zitools_1.7.0.tgz
Dependencies

Depends: R (>= 4.4.0), methods

Imports: phyloseq, pscl, ggplot2, MatrixGenerics, SummarizedExperiment, stats, VGAM, matrixStats, tidyr, tibble, dplyr, DESeq2, reshape2, RColorBrewer, magrittr, BiocGenerics, graphics, utils

Suggests: knitr, rmarkdown, BiocStyle, testthat (>= 3.0.0), tidyverse, microbiome