tool.unify: Convert a distribution to uniform ranks
In Mergeomics: Integrative network analysis of omics data

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tool.unify converts a distribution to uniform ranks with respect to a background distribution (or self if no background available).

1	tool.unify(xtrait, xnull = NULL)

`xtrait`	the distribution that will be standardized, i.e. uniformly distributed
`xnull`	background distribution to be used to distribute `xtrait` uniformly. If `xnull` is not specified, `xtrait` will be used as background distr

`y`	uniformly distributed form of `xtrait`

Ville-Petteri Makinen

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x <- rnorm(10)
y <- tool.unify(x) ## uniformly distributed form of x when null dist is x
z <- tool.unify(x, y) ## uniformly distributed form of x when null dist is y