\name{merge-methods} \docType{methods} \alias{merge-methods} \alias{merge,flowObj-methods} \title{ Merge mixture components } \description{ Merge mixture components in a \code{flowObj} derived from a \code{flowClust} result and a \code{flowFrame} using the cluster merging algorithm. } \section{Methods}{ \describe{ \item{x = "ANY", y = "ANY"}{ The generic method. Should not be called. } \item{x = "flowObj", y = "missing"}{ The merge method for a \code{flowObj}. } }} \value{ An unnamed list of \code{flowMerge} objects with the \code{k}th element corresponding to the k-cluster merged solution. } \examples{ data(rituximab) data(RituximabFlowClustFit) o<-flowObj(flowClust.res[[which.max(flowMerge:::BIC(flowClust.res))]],rituximab); m<-merge(o); } \references{ Finak G, Bashasharti A, Brinkmann R, Gottardo R. Merging Mixture Model Components for Improved Cell Population Identification in High Throughput Flow Cytometry Data (To Appear)} \keyword{methods}