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biospear: an R package for biomarker selection in penalized Cox regression
Author(s) -
Nils Ternès,
Federico Rotolo,
Stefan Michiels
Publication year - 2017
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/btx560
Subject(s) - r package , proportional hazards model , computer science , regression , selection (genetic algorithm) , regression analysis , software package , lasso (programming language) , biomarker , statistics , data mining , econometrics , software , artificial intelligence , machine learning , mathematics , biology , biochemistry , programming language , world wide web
The R package biospear allows selecting the biomarkers with the strongest impact on survival and on the treatment effect in high-dimensional Cox models, and estimating expected survival probabilities. Most of the implemented approaches are based on penalized regression techniques.

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