[BioC] error in dispersion estimate

Simon Anders anders at embl.de
Fri Apr 13 11:51:05 CEST 2012


Hi

On 04/12/2012 05:24 PM, mariangela bonizzoni wrote:
> Error in parametricDispersionFit(means, disps) :
>    Parametric dispersion fit failed. Try a local fit and/or a pooled estimation.
> (See '?estimateDispersions')               ^^^^^^^^^
> In addition: Warning message:
> glm.fit: algorithm did not converge

Have you tried a local fit, as suggested by the error message? (Call 
estimateDispersion with fitType="local".)

   Simon



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