title: Joint variable selection and classification with immunohistochemical data.
abstract: To determine if candidate cancer biomarkers have utility in a clinical setting, validation using immunohistochemical methods is typically done. Most analyses of such data have not incorporated the multivariate nature of the staining profiles. In this article, we consider modelling such data using recently developed ideas from the machine learning community. In particular, we consider the joint goals of feature selection and classification. We develop estimation procedures for the analysis of immunohistochemical profiles using the least absolute selection and shrinkage operator. These lead to novel and flexible models and algorithms for the analysis of compositional data. The techniques are illustrated using data from a cancer biomarker study.
authors.affiliation: Departments of Statistics and Public Health Sciences, Pennsylvania State University, 514A Wartik Lab, University Park, PA 16802.
authors.forename: Debashis
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Ghosh
authors.forename: Ratna
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Chakrabarti
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