Más-o-menos: a simple sign averaging method for discrimination in genomic data analysis
Author(s) -
Sihai Dave Zhao,
Giovanni Parmigiani,
Curtis Huttenhower,
Levi Waldron
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
bioinformatics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.599
H-Index - 390
eISSN - 1367-4811
pISSN - 1367-4803
DOI - 10.1093/bioinformatics/btu488
Subject(s) - bioconductor , computer science , simplicity , sign (mathematics) , simple (philosophy) , lasso (programming language) , r package , artificial intelligence , machine learning , pattern recognition (psychology) , algorithm , mathematics , programming language , mathematical analysis , philosophy , biochemistry , epistemology , gene , chemistry
The successful translation of genomic signatures into clinical settings relies on good discrimination between patient subgroups. Many sophisticated algorithms have been proposed in the statistics and machine learning literature, but in practice simpler algorithms are often used. However, few simple algorithms have been formally described or systematically investigated.
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