averagecategories.qmd

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title: "Average categories"
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# General

-   **Type:** - Matrix Processing
-   **Heading:** - Annot. columns
-   **Source code:** [AverageCategories.cs](https://github.com/JurgenCox/perseus-plugins/blob/master/PerseusPluginLib/AnnotCols/AverageCategories.cs)

# Brief description

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

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# Parameters

## Categories

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

## 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

## 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).

# Parameter window

![](images/annot.columns-average_categories-edited.png)