beta.mom {EBSeq} | R Documentation

## Fit the beta distribution by method of moments

### Description

'beta.mom' fits the beta distribution by method of moments.

### Usage

    beta.mom(qs.in)

### Arguments

`qs.in` | A vector contains the numbers that are assumed to follow a beta distribution.

### Value

`alpha.hat` | Returns the estimation of alpha.
`beta.hat` | Returns the estimation of beta.

### Author(s)

Ning Leng

### References

Ning Leng, John A. Dawson, James A. Thomson, Victor Ruotti, Anna I. Rissman, Bart M.G. Smits, Jill D. Haag, Michael N. Gould, Ron M. Stewart, and Christina Kendziorski. EBSeq: An empirical Bayes hierarchical model for inference in RNA-seq experiments. Bioinformatics (2013)

### See Also

DenNHist, DenNHistTable

### Examples

    #tmp = rbeta(5, 5, 100)
    #param = beta.mom(tmp)

[Package EBSeq version 1.34.0 Index]