Average categories

Author

Cox Lab

Published

November 15, 2023

1 General

Type: - Matrix Processing
Heading: - Annot. columns
Source code: AverageCategories.cs

2 Brief description

Rows that have a common term in one of the selected categorical columns are averaged. Several different summarization methods can be selected.

3 Parameters

3.1 Categories

Selected categorical columns that are used to specify, which rows should be summarized (default: all categorical columns are selected).

3.2 Average type

Selected operation that should be used to average the values of the expression columns (default: median). The operation can be selected from a predefined list of operations:

Median
Mean
Sum
Standard deviation

3.3 Min. size

The minimal occurrence of a certain term within a categorical column so that the rows will be summarized into one row (default: 3).